Vedrana Rudan was born in Opatia, Croatia. Formerly a journalist, Rudan wrote for a number of years for Nacional, Croatia’s largest newspaper. She has published nearly a dozen books, including Night and Love at Last Sight, which have been published by Dalkey Archive.
Ellen Elias-Bursać has been translating novels and non-fiction by Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian writers for thirty years, including writing by David Albahari, Neda Miranda Blazević Kreitzman, Ivana Bodrozic, Svetlana Broz, Slavenka Drakulic, Dasa Drndić, Kristian Novak, Djurdja Otrzan, Robert Perisic, Igor Stiks, Vedrana Rudan, Slobodan Selenić, Antun Soljan, Dubravka Ugresic, Karim Zaimović.