Asta Olivia Nordenhof made her debut in 2011 with the novel Et ansigt til Emily (A Face for Emily), which won the Bodil and Jørgen Munch-Christensen Debutant Prize. She is a graduate of the School of Authors in Copenhagen, and won the 2013 Montanas Literature Prize for her poetry collection, The Easiness and the Loneliness. She has worked as a prostitute, and runs a blog that combines diary entries, poems, excerpts of critical theory texts, and observations on everything from feminism to red wine. Susanna Nied is a writer and translator who received the Landon Translation Award of the Academy of American Poets in 2007 for her translation of it by Inger Christensen. She has twice been a finalist for the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation.