Phoebe Giannisi is the author of eight collections of poetry, including Chimera (Kastaniotis, 2019), and, most recently, Thetis and Aedon (Kastaniotis, 2021). A 2016 Fellow of the Society of Fellows in the Humanities at Columbia University, Giannisi is a professor of architecture at the University of Thessaly, and coeditor of the literary journal FRMK. Her work focuses on the borders between poetry and performance, theory and representation, and explores the concept of polyphony though text, multimedia, and creative archiving. She has translated ancient Greek lyric poetry as well as the poetry of Barbara Koehler, Gregor Laschen, Jesper Svenbro, and André Pieyre de Mandiargues. She lives in Volos, Greece.

Brian Sneeden is the author of Last City (Carnegie Mellon, 2018). His poetry and translations have received an Iowa Review Award in Poetry, an NEA Literature Fellowship for Translation, a World Literature Today Translation Prize in Poetry, a Constantinides Memorial Translation Prize, a PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant, and other recognitions. His translation of Phoebe Giannisi’s Homerica (World Poetry Books, 2017) was selected by Anne Carson as a favorite book of 2017, and his translation of Giannisi’s collection Cicada was published by New Directions in 2022. He is a lecturer in English at Manchester Metropolitan University.