L¿ora Miano was born in Cameroon in 1973 and lived there until moving to France in 1991. She has published three novels including L¿interieur de la nuit. In 2006 she received the Montalembert Prize for a first novel by a female writer. Tamsin Black has translated Pascale Kramer¿s The Living and Marie NDiaye¿s Rosie Carpe, both available in Bison Books editions. Terese Svoboda translated songs from the Nuer, a Sudanese people, in Cleaned the Crocodile¿s Teeth, and is the author of Tin God (Nebraska 2006) and Trailer Girl and Other Stories, available in a Bison Books edition.