Maud Ventura lives in Paris. Before devoting herself to writing full-time, she led the podcast division of one of France's major radio stations. My Husband, her first novel, was a #1 bestseller in France and has been translated into more than ten languages.
Emma Ramadan (translator) is the recipient of the PEN Translation Prize, the Albertine Prize, an NEA Fellowship, and a Fulbright Scholarship.
Her translations include Barbara Molinard's Panics, Virginie Despentes's Pretty Things, and Abdellah Taïa's A Country for Dying. She lives in Brooklyn.