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Mircea Cartarescu is a writer, professor, and journalist who has published more than twenty-five books. His work has received the Formentor Prize, the Thomas Mann Prize, the Austrian State Prize for Literature, and the Vilenica Prize, among many others. His work has been translated in twenty-three languages.

Paul Boehmer is a seasoned actor who has appeared on Broadway, film, and television, including The Thomas Crown Affair and All My Children. Coinciding with another of his passions, sci-fi, Paul has been cast in various roles in many episodes of Star Trek.

Sean Cotter is a translator and professor of literature and translation at the University of Texas at Dallas. A previous National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellow, Cotter is the translator of eleven books, including T. O. Bobe's Curl and Nichita Stanescu's Wheel with a Single Spoke and Other Poems.