Emmanuelle Bayamack-Tam has published twelve novels, three under the pseudonym Rebecca Lighieri, and two plays with P.O.L (France). She is a founding member of the interdisciplinary association Autres et Pareils and co-director of Éditions Contre-Pied. Arcadia won the Prix du Livre Inter and was shortlisted for the Prix Femina, Prix Médicis, and Prix de Flore. Arcadia is translated from the French by Ruth Diver and published in the US by Seven Stories Press.

Lauren Groff is the author of The Monsters of Templeton (Hachette), Delicate Edible Birds (Hachette), and Arcadia (Hyperion Books), a New York Times Notable Book, winner of the Medici Book Club Prize, and finalist for the L.A. Times Book Award. Her novel, Fates and Furies (Riverhead Books), was a finalist for the National Book Award in Fiction, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Kirkus Award and was a New York Times Notable book and bestseller. Her Florida (Riverhead Books) was a finalist for the National Book Award. In 2017, she was named by Granta Magazine as one of the Best of Young American Novelists of her generation.

Katy Waldman is a staff writer at The New Yorker, where she writes about books, literature, and more. Previously, she was a staff writer at Slate and the host of the Slate’s Audio Book Club podcast. She won the National Book Critics Circle’s Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing in 2019 and the American Society of Magazine Editors Award for journalists younger than thirty in 2018.