Lara Rüter was born in 1990 in Hannover, Germany. She studied Archaeology for a year in Berlin and subsequently Cultural Studies at the Literaturinstitut Hildesheim. She is currently completing her Master's degree in Creative Writing at the Literaturinstitut Leipzig. Her work has been published in several anthologies and online at BELLA triste, Fixpoetry, and Babelsprech, among others.
Maximiliane Donicht is the author of Bees of the Invisible, a chapbook forthcoming from Finishing Line Press. She once worked as a pastry chef in Paris, practiced classical Japanese swordsmanship in New York, and now lives in Taipei, where she eats an ungodly amount of purple sweet potatoes. Maxi earned her MFA in Poetry and Literary Translation from Columbia University, and her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in The London Journal of Fiction, Bone Bouquet, Paris/Atlantic, and Cold Mountain Review. Her translations have been published online at The Grief Diaries and Columbia Journal, and she is the translator of Professor Dr. Thomas Höllmann's The Chinese Script. She is from Munich, Germany.