Carleton Bulkin received an M.A. in Slavic Languages and Literatures from Indiana University. His translations include Hidden History by Otokar Březina, Marketa Lazarová by Vladislav Vančura (both with Twisted Spoon Press) and False Dawn by Ilona Lacková (University of Hertfordshire Press).
Josef Zumr is a member of the Philosophy Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences and formerly taught philosophy at Palacký University in Olomouc. He has written extensively on Ladislav Klíma’s work.