Nastassja Martin is a French author and anthropologist who has studied the Gwich'in people of Alaska and the Even people of the Kamchatka Peninsula. Her books include In the Eye of the Wild (available from New York Review Books), Les Ames sauvages: Face à l'Occident, la résistance d'un peuple d'Alaska (winner of the Prix Louis Castex of the Académie Française), and, most recently, Lamont des sources. In 2023 she became professor of Habitabilité de la Terre et transitions justes at the University of Paris 1/Sorbonne, and she is the director of Tvaian, a documentary based on the experiences of Daria, one of the subjects of East of Dreams.

Sophie R. Lewis is an editor and a translator from the French and Portuguese. Her translation of Noémi Lefebvre's Blue Self-Portrait was short-listed for both the Scott Moncrieff Prize and the Republic of Consciousness Prize in 2018, and her translation of Nastassja Martin's In the Eye of the Wild was a winner of the nonfiction translation prize from the French-American Foundation in 2022.