Iman Mersal is the author of several books of poems, including "The Threshold," translated by Robyn Creswell, which gathers poems from her first four collections of poetry. She is also the other of the collection of essays "How to Mend: Motherhood and Its Ghosts" and the prose work "Traces of Enayat," which received the Sheikh Zayed Book Award for Literature in 2021. Born in Mit Adlaw, a small village in the northern Nile delta in Egypt, she is a professor of Arabic language and literature at the University of Alberta, Canada.

Marcel Dzama is a Brooklyn-based artist born in Winnipeg, Canada, where he received his BFA in 1997 from the University of Manitoba. Since 1998, his work has been represented by David Zwirner. Dzama has exhibited widely in solo and group presentations throughout the United States and abroad. Work by the artist is held in museum collections worldwide, including the Dallas Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of Modern Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Tate, London; Musée d’art Contemporain de Montréal; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; and the Vancouver Art Gallery.