Caroline Stevan has been nearsighted since childhood and considers glasses to be one of mankind's greatest inventions. She is a journalist at the Swiss radio and television and passionate about social issues, she co-hosts the program Le Point J. She has two daughters, one of whom proudly wears glasses. Extraordinary Eyeglasses is her fourth book published by Helvetiq, following Blablacar, la France et moi, Be my quarantine and Citizen She!.
François Vigneault is a cartoonist and illustrator born in the United States to Haitian and French-Canadian parents. He is the co-creator of the YA graphic novel 13e Avenue published by Éditions de la Pastèque in 2018 and the comic book series Orcs in Space from Oni Press (2021—22). His relatively small body of work has been nominated for a surprising number of awards (including the the Joe Shuster Award and the Bédélys Québec Award) and has even won a few of them, including the inaugural Québec Bookseller's Prize for best youth graphic novel. He started wearing glasses when he was 12 years old. He grew up in San Diego, California and lived in San Francisco and Portland, Oregon before landing in Québec in 2015, where he has lived ever since.
Elīna Brasliņa is an illustrator from Riga, in Latvia. She has illustrated over 20 books: mainly children’s stories and novels by Latvian writers. She also illustrated Lawrence Schimel’s board books Bedtime, Not Playtime! and Early One Morning; Kate Wakeling’s poetry collections Moon Juice and Cloud Soup; and Patricia Forde’s picture book Imagine! She also creates animated films and feminist art in her free time. Citizen She! is the second book she has illustrated for Helvetiq. The first was Ting!
Michelle Bailat-Jones is a translator and novelist living in Switzerland. Her translations include Henry Dunant: The Man of the Red Crossby Corinne Chaponnière, both Beauty on Earth and What if the Sun...? by the celebrated Swiss modernist Charles Ferdinand Ramuz, as well as work by Clarisse Francillon, Claude Cahun, Julia Allard Daudet, Laure Mi-Hyun Croset, Timba Bema, and Céline Cerny. She is the author of two novels, and her shorter fiction, translations, poetry, and criticism have appeared in a variety of journals, both online and in print.
