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Fanny Howe was born on 15 October 1940 in Buffalo, New York. She was professor emerita in literature at the University of California, San Diego, and the author of more than fifty books of poetry and prose. Howe taught literature and writing throughout her life and mentored a generation of American poets, activists and scholars working at the intersection of experimental and metaphysical thinking. She died on 8 July 2025 in Lincoln, Massachusetts.

Joana Masó is a professor of French literature at the University of Barcelona. She is a researcher with the UNESCO Chair on Women, Development and Cultures, and works at the intersection of literature, critical thinking, contemporary art, and curating exhibitions. She has co-edited Jacques Derrida’s text on aesthetics, Thinking Out of Sight: Writings on the Art of the Visible (University of Chicago Press, 2020), and on architecture, Les arts de l’espace: Écrits et interventions sur l’architecture (La Différence, 2015). She has also coedited Hélène Cixous’s essays dedicated to art, Poetry in Painting: Writings on Contemporary Arts and Aesthetics (Edinburgh University Press, 2012). Since 2017, she has led the research project “The Forgotten Legacy of Tosquelles” at the University of Barcelona, under the ADHUC—Research Center for Theory, Gender, Sexuality. She has published Tosquelles. Healing Institutions (Semiotext(e) and Divided 2026, forthcoming), and Tosquelles. Avant-garde psychiatry, Radical Politics and Art (2024), the American Folk Art Museum in New York exhibition catalogue.

Robert Hurley has translated the work of several leading French theorists into English, including Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Georges Bataille and Pierre Clastres. He led the team translating selections from Foucault's three-volume Dits et écrits, 1954-88. He has also translated several works by The Invisible Committee for Semiotext(e).

Mara Faye Lethem is a writer, researcher and literary translator. She has been recognised with a wide range of awards and nominations, including the National Book Critics Circle Gregg Barrios Award, the Prix Jan Michalski, the Spain-USA Foundation Translation Award and the Lewis Galantière Award. Her novel, A Person’s A Person, No Matter How Small, has been translated into two languages. She is a 2025 National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellow, in support of her translations of modern classic Pere Calders.

Françoise Vergès (Reunion Island) is a writer, decolonial antiracist feminist and curator. She writes on the afterlife of slavery and colonisation, psychiatry, the museum and climate disaster. Her publications include: Making the World Clean: Wasted Lives, Wasted Environment, and Racial Capitalism (2024), A Programme of Absolute Disorder: Decolonizing the Museum (2024), A Decolonial Feminism (2021), The Wombs of Women: Race, Capital, Feminism (2020) and Resolutely Black: Conversations with Françoise Vergès, with Aimé Césaire (2020). She has written documentary films on Maryse Condé (2013) and Aimé Césaire (2011), and was a project advisor for documenta11 (2002) and the Triennale de Paris (2011). She is currently Senior Fellow Researcher at the Sarah Parker Remond Centre for the Study of Racism and Racialisation, University College London.

Mayra A. Rodríguez Castro is a writer and editor. She is a former Postdoctoral Fellow at Freie Universität Berlin (2018), recipient of the Anne Waldman Fellowship at Naropa University (2019) and Textual International Fellowship at Akademie Schloss Solitude (2025). Her essay ‘El Nuevo Sublime’ was a finalist for the National Essay and Criticism Award in Colombia (2019). Castro is the editor of Dream of Europe: Selected Seminars and Interviews, 1984-1992 (2020), a collection of unpublished lectures by Audre Lorde, shortlisted for the Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism (2021), and author of The Echo (2025).

Lara Vergnaud is a literary translator of French and has translated over a dozen novels, including works by Zahia Rahmani, Fatima Daas, Mohamed Leftah and Mohamed Mbougar Sarr. Lara was born in Tunisia, grew up in the United States and currently lives in southern France.