Edoardo Nesi is a writer, filmmaker, translator, and politician. He began his career translating the work of such authors as Bruce Chatwin, Malcolm Lowry, Stephen King, and Quentin Tarantino. He has written six novels, one of which, L'età dell'oro, was a finalist for the 2005 Strega Prize and a winner of the Bruno Cavallini Prize. He wrote and directed the film Fughe da fermo, based on his novel of the same name, and has translated David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest into Italian. In 2013 he was elected as a member of the Italian Parliament's Chamber of Deputies.

Guido Maria Brera is a founding partner of the Kairos Group, an Italian investment management company created in 1999 of which he is Chief Investment Officer. He is the author of I diavoli (2014).

Antony Shugaar is an author as well as a translator. His recent translations include On Earth as It Is in Heaven by Davide Enia, A Pimp's Notes, by Giorgio Faletti, Swimming to Elba by Silvia Avallone, Romanzo Criminale by Giancarlo De Cataldo, and The Four Corners of Palermo by Giuseppe Di Piazza (Other Press).