Marina Mander is the author of Manuale di ipocondria fantastica (A fantastical manual of hypochondria, 2000), Catalogo degli addii (A catalogue of good-byes, 2010), and Nessundorma (Nobody is sleeping, 2013). This is her first U.S. publication. She lives in Milan and works in publishing.
Stephen Twilley is managing editor of the online review Public Books and the translator of several books from the Italian, including Francesco Pacifico’s The Story of My Purity and Fabio Stassi’s Charlie Chaplin’s Last Dance.