F Aziz Manna was born in Surabaya, East Java in 1978 and graduated from the Department of Cultural Studies at Airlangga University. He has published several collections of poetry, of which one, titled Playon, received the 2016 Khatulistiwa Award, Indonesia’s top literary prize for poetry.
John H. McGlynn has translated several dozen publications under his own name, and through the Lontar Foundation, which he co-founded in 1987, has ushered into print close to two hundred books on Indonesian language, literature, and culture. He is the Indonesian country editor for M?NOA, a literary journal published by the University of Hawai'i Press; the senior editor for I-Lit, an on-line journal focusing on Indonesian literature in translation; a contributing editor to Words Without Borders and Warscapes, U.S. based literary journals; and an editor advisor for Jurnal Sastra, an Indonesian-language on-line journal. He is also a frequent speaker at seminars both in Indonesia and abroad.
