Ariela Freedman was born in Brooklyn and has lived in Jerusalem, New York, Calgary, London, and Montreal. Her reviews and poems have appeared in Vallum, carte blanche, The Cincinnati Review and other publications, and she was selected to participate in the Quebec Writers? Federation?s 2014 Mentorship Program. Arabic for Beginners, published by LLP in 2017, is her first novel, followed by A Joy To Be Hidden (LLP, 2019) and L/a (LLP, 2022). She has a Ph.D. from New York University and teaches literature at Concordia?s Liberal Arts College in Montreal, where she lives with her husband and two sons.
Stephen Henighan is a novelist, academic, and translator. He is the author of over a dozen previous books, including the short story collection A Grave in the Air and the novel The Path of the Jaguar. He has been a finalist for the Governor General?s Award, the Canada Prize in the Humanities, a McNally Robinson Fiction Prize, a National Magazine Award, and a Western Magazine Award. Henighan is General Editor of the Biblioasis International Translation Series, and teaches Spanish-American literature in the School of Languages and Literatures at the University of Guelph.