Kikuko Tsumura is a writer from Osaka, Japan. She is the winner of the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize and numerous Japanese literary awards including the Dazai Osamu Prize, Noma Literary Prize, Akutagawa Prize, Oda Sakunosuke Prize, Kawabata Yasunari Literary Prize, Murasaki Shikibu Literary Prize, Tanizaki Jun'ichiro Prize, and a New Artist award for There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job.

Yuki Tejima is a translator from the Japanese whose projects include Mizuki Tsujimura's Lost Souls Meet Under a Full Moon and How to Hold Someone in Your Heart, Kumi Kimura's Someone to Watch Over You, and Emi Yagi's When the Museum Is Closed, among others. Raised in California, she now divides her time between Los Angeles and Tokyo.