Grzegorz Wróblewski was born in 1962 in Gdańsk and grew up in Warsaw. Since 1985 he has lived in Copenhagen. He is the author of numerous books of poetry, drama and other writings. A renowned visual artist, he has exhibited his paintings in Denmark, Germany, England and Poland. English translations of his work are available in Our Flying Objects (trans. Joel Leonard Katz, Rod Mengham, Malcolm Sinclair and Adam Zdrodowski, Equipage 2007), A Marzipan Factory (trans. Adam Zdrodowski, Otoliths 2010), Kopenhaga (trans. Piotr Gwiazda, Zephyr Press 2013), Let’s Go Back to the Mainland (trans. Agnieszka Pokojska, Červená Barva Press, 2014), Zero Visibility (trans. Piotr Gwiazda, Phoneme Media 2017), Dear Beloved Humans (trans. Piotr Gwiazda, Dialogos Books 2023), I Really Like Lovers of Poetry (trans. Grzegorz Wróblewski and Marcus Silcock Slease, Červená Barva Press 2024), and Tatami in Kyoto (trans. Grzegorz Wróblewski, Literary Waves Publishing 2024). Wróblewski is also the author of Shanty Town (Post-Asemic Press 2022), a book of asemic writing. He has been awarded scholarships from the Danish Literature Council (Litteraturrådet) and the Danish Arts Foundation (Statens Kunstfond).

Ben Borek grew up in South London. His previous novel in verse, Donjong Heights, published by Egg Box, was a cult hit back in 2008, and his poetry has been published in the anthologies City State (Penned in the Margins), London, A History in Verse (Harvard University Press), and Dear World & Everyone in it (Bloodaxe). He has read his work at festivals throughout the UK and Europe, and audio of his work is available at the Archive of the Now (archiveofthenow.org). He lives in Warsaw with his partner and son and is employed variously as a copywriter, editor, translator and voiceover artist.

Adam Zdrodowski is a writer, translator and musician (recording under the moniker Moon Machinery) working in English and Polish. He is the author of four collections of poetry: Przygody, etc. (2005), Jesień Zuzanny (2007), 47 lotów balonem (2013) and Moon Machine (2019). He has translated authors such as Sarah Perry, Gertrude Stein, William S. Burroughs and Grzegorz Wróblewski, among others. His poems have appeared in journals and anthologies including Jacket, Past Simple, 3:AM Magazine, the Danish Polsk poesi (trans. Frej Larsen and Paweł Partyka), and the Swedish OEI. He lives in Warsaw, Poland.