David Bouchet (Daouda Toubab) is an editor, writer and screenwriter. He spent most of his life in Dakar, Senegal and has lived in Montreal since 2010. Sun of a Distant Landis his first novel.

Claire Holden Rothman is a Montreal fiction writer and translator whose novels include My October (2014) and The Heart Specialist (2009). Her translation of Canada's first novel, L'influence d'un livre (The Influence of a Book) by Philippe Aubert de Gaspé, won the John Glassco Translation Prize.