John Donatich is the Director of Yale University Press. He serves as founder and editor of the Margellos World Republic of Letters, a literature in translation series that publishes such authors as Adonis, Claudio Magris, Norman Manea, and Witold Gombrow.

Ghassan Zaqtan, a poet, novelist, editor, and playwright, is perhaps the most important Palestinian poet writing today. He lives in Ramallah, Palestine. His first collection to be translated into English from Yale University Press, Like a Straw Bird It Follows Me, won the Griffin International Poetry Prize in 2013.

Fady Joudah is a Palestinian American physician, poet, and translator. His collection The Earth in the Attic won the Yale Younger Poets Prize, and his translation of the final three collections of Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, The Butterfly’s Burden, was a finalist for the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation. His translation of Ghassan Zaqtan's Like a Straw Bird It Follows Me won the Griffin International Poetry Prize for 2013. He works as a physician in Houston. He has been a field member of Doctors Without Borders since 2001.

Mark Doty's eight books of poems have received the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He is also the author of four books of nonfiction prose and a handbook for writers. A new book of poems, Deep Lane, is forthcoming. He teaches at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ.