Piotr Szewc was born in 1961 in Zamosc, the eastern Polish town that is the model for the town in "Annihilation", his first novel. He has published poems, essays, and translations, and works in Warsaw as a free-lance writer. Ewa Hryniewicz-Yarbrough is a graduate of both Wroclaw University in Poland and Virginia Tech. Her work has appeared in publications such as "The New Yorker, Paris Review, TriQuarterly, Ploughshares", and the "Chicago Review". Piotr Szewc's "Annihilation" was her first translation.

Piotr Szewc was born in 1961 in Zamosc, the eastern Polish town that is the model for the town in "Annihilation", his first novel. He has published poems, essays, and translations, and works in Warsaw as a free-lance writer. Ewa Hryniewicz-Yarbrough is a graduate of both Wroclaw University in Poland and Virginia Tech. Her work has appeared in publications such as "The New Yorker, Paris Review, TriQuarterly, Ploughshares", and the "Chicago Review". Piotr Szewc's "Annihilation" was her first translation.