Mario F. Lawi was born in 1991, in Kupang, East Nusa Tenggara. He has published books of poetry and short-stories in which one of his books of poetry, Ekaristi was shortlisted for the 2014 Khatulistiwa prize for poetry and was also chosen as the 2014 book of poetry of the year by Tempo Magazine.
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.
