OLGA GRJASNOWA was born in 1984 in Baku, Azerbaijan, grew up in the Caucasus, and has spent extended periods in Poland, Russia, and Israel. She moved to Germany at the age of twelve and is a graduate of the German Institute for Literature/Creative Writing in Leipzig. All Russians Love Birch Trees, for which she received a research grant from the Robert Bosch Foundation, has won the Kühne Prize, the Anna Seghers Prize, and was long-listed for the German Book Prize in 2012.

EVA BACON studied German and English Literature at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich and has worked as an international literary scout. This is her first translation of a novel. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.