Stanley Péan was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, in the spring of 1966, and he grew up in the Saguenay region of Quebec where his parents settled after immigrating in the fall of that same year. A writer and cultural journalist, over the last thirty years he has published twenty-five works in a variety of genres: novels, short story collections, essays, and fiction for young readers. A music lover, every night of the week Péan hosts a jazz show on ICI Musique, Radio-Canada's music channel. And though he is past fifty, he still has not learned to drive. Which explains the taxis. Author website: stanleypean.com

Translator David Homel is the author of eleven novels for adults and young readers. His books have been published in a number of languages. He also works as a journalist and documentary filmmaker. As a translator, he has won the Governor General’s Literary Award for French-to-English Translation in 1995 and 2001, the Quebec Writers’ Federation Literary Award for Translation in 2003, the J. I. Segal Award of the Jewish Public Library in 2012, as well as two awards from the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY).