Armine Kotin Mortimer is the translator of Philippe Sollers’s Mysterious Mozart (University of Illinois Press, 2010) and his Casanova the Irresistible (Illinois, 2016), as well as Julia Kristeva’s The Enchanted Clock (Columbia University Press, 2017). Excerpts from her translations of Sollers’s novels have appeared in 3:AM Magazine, AGNI, The Brooklyn Rail, The Cossack Review, and Asymptote. Her long career as a professor of French literature occasioned many scholarly books and articles, as well as recognition by the French government with the Palmes Académiques in 2009.

Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, writer Lynne Sharon Schwartz is the author of more than 20 books, including the poetry collections In Solitary (2002) and See You in the Dark (2012). Her poetry has been featured on Garrison Keillor’s NPR program, “The Writer’s Almanac”, and in former US Poet Laureate Ted Kooser’s syndicated newspaper column, “American Life in Poetry.” Her debut novel, Rough Strife (1980), was nominated for a National Book Award and the PEN/Hemingway First Novel Award, and her post-9/11 novel, The Writing on the Wall (2005), won the New York Magazine “Best Literary Fiction” award. Schwartz’s translations from Italian include Smoke Over Birkenau (1998), by Liana Millu, and A Place to Live: Selected Essays of Natalia Ginzburg (2003). Schwartz’s honors include grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the New York State Foundation for the Arts. Schwartz serves on the faculty of the Bennington Writing Seminars and lives in New York City.