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Suzane Adam was born in Satu Mare, Transylvania, and came to Israel at the age of ten. She completed her studies majoring in medieval art, photography and etching. She later went on to study graphic art and multimedia and has taught art and creative thinking, image consulting, and computerized commercial presentation. She has worked as an illustrator and invented games for one of Israel's largest toy firms. She began writing seriously in 1996 and now devotes most of her time to writing. She published her first novel, Laundry, in 2000, followed by Mayamiya in 2002 and Janis's Mother in 2004. In 2006, she was awarded the Kugel Prize for Janis's Mother. Her work has been translated in German and English.

Becka Mara McKay earned an MFA in translation from the University of Iowa and an MFA in creative writing from the University of Washington. She is currently working on her PhD in comparative literature. Her poetry and translations have appeared in ACM, American Letters and Commentary, Columbia, Controlled Burn, Cranky, eXchanges, Hayden's Ferry Review, Third Coast, small spiral notebook, TWO LINES, and elsewhere. In 2004 she received a fellowship from the American Literary Translators Association. In 2006 she was nominated for a Pushcart Prize.