Dubravka Ugresic is the author of six works of fiction, including The Museum of Unconditional Surrender, and six essay collections, including the NBCC award finalist, Karaoke Culture. In 2016, she was awarded the Neustadt International Prize for Literature for her body of work. She went into exile from Croatia after being labeled a "witch" for her anti-nationalistic stance during the Yugoslav war. She lived in the Netherlands until her passing in March 2023.
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.
David Williams is the author of Traveling Mercies (Alice James Books, 1993). His work has appeared in dozens of magazines, including The Atlantic, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Image, Kenyon Review, Many Mountains Moving, Michigan Quarterly, Mizna, Poetry East, Orion, Sonora Review, and Sierra, as well as several anthologies, including Poetry from the Amicus Journal (Natural Resources Defense Council), Post-Gibran: New Arab-American Writing (Jusoor/Syracuse University Press). Stories from Where We live (Milkweed Editions), Cultural Activisms (SUNY), and Dinarzad’s Children: Contemporary Arab-American Fiction (University of Arkansas, forthcoming). His writing is discussed at length in Memory and Cultural Politics: New American Ethnic Literatures (Northeastern University Press). His manuscript, Far Sides of the Only World, was runner-up in Carolina Wren Press’s 2003 Poetry Chapbook Contest.
