Sergio Kokis is the author of eight novels. His first, Le pavillon des miroirs (translated as Funhouse) won four major literary prizes in 1994. L'art du maquillage (translated here as The Art of Deception) appeared in 1997.

W. Donald Wilson was born in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, in 1938. He holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from Trinity College, Dublin, and has taught at universities in the West Indies and England, and Canada. He lives in Waterloo, Ontario.