Friederike Otto is a climate researcher, physicist, and doctor of philosophy. At the Centre for Environmental Policy at Imperial College London, she researches extreme weather and its effects on society, and she has helped develop the new field of attribution science. She is one of a handful of scientists around the world who can calculate in real time how much climate change has impacted our weather. Her first book, Angry Weather, was published in 2020. In 2021, she was named one of TIME's 100 most influential people in the world. She lives in London.

Sarah Pybus has been translating from German for almost twenty years. Her career in literary translation began when she was awarded first prize in the inaugural Nonfiction Translation Competition (German Book Office New York/Geisteswissenschaften International) in 2015. Since then, she has translated crime fiction, non-fiction and photography books, as well as working for universities, tourism companies, media outlets and many others. She translated Friederike Otto's first book, Angry Weather (Greystone Books, 2020), and her translation of Chemistry for Breakfast by Dr Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim (Greystone Books, 2021) was nominated for the 2022 AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science Books in the Young Adult Science Book category.