Asja Bakic is a Bosnian author of poetry and prose, as well as a translator. She was selected as one of Literary Europe Live's New Voices from Europe 2017, and her writing has been translated into seven languages. Her debut, Mars, was published in English by Feminist Press in 2019. She currently lives and works in Zagreb, Croatia.

Jennifer Zoble translates Balkan literature into English. Recent books include Call Me Esteban (Sandorf Passage 2021), her translation of Zovite me Esteban by Lejla Kalamujic, and Mars (Feminist Press 2019), which was selected by Publishers Weekly for the fiction list in its "Best Books 2019" issue. She is on the faculty of Liberal Studies at New York University, where she teaches writing and translation.