Merle Lyn Bachman is a poet, Yiddishist, and an Associate Professor of English at Spalding University in Louisville, Kentucky, where she directs the undergraduate Creative Writing program. She is a 2015 Translation Fellow of the National Yiddish Book Center. Anthony Rudolf is a major translator of literary works from French, Russian and other languages, including books by Yves Bonnefoy, Claude Vige, Edmond Jabs, and Evgeny Vinokurov. He is also the author of a trilogy of memoirs: Silent Conversations: a Reader's Life, A Vanished Hand and The Arithmetic of Memory. His critical work includes the first extended study in English of Primo Levi and a wide range of essays on international modernist writers.