Tomasz Malkowski is a historian and author of school history textbooks. He has been cooperating with the GWO Publishing House since 1996 and is a laureate of numerous awards and distinctions, including: third prize in the literary competition organized by Tygodnik Solidarnosc for the short story “Scraps of Earth” in 1993; first prize in the 9th National Literary Competition for the short story “Clay Vessels” in 1994; a distinction in the Gdansk City Literary Competition for a collection of short stories in 1995; and the main prize in the Gdansk City Literary Competition for the novel Father Jozef in 2013. Tomasz enjoys traveling and meeting people and lives in Poland.Joanna Rusinek is a Polish illustrator and graphic designer. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow in 2006 in the Animated Film department. Although animation is no longer her primary focus, she does take on projects involving motion pictures and theater scenography. Her debut film, Nabu (2023) is based on the book Nabu’s Journey by Jaroslaw Mikolajewski, illustrated by Joanna. Nabu’s Journey received a special IBBY award in 2022, and A Scarf, an illustrated biography of Wislawa Szymborska, received a Literary Award of Greater Poland Readers in 2024. Joanna works as an editorial illustrator for Newsweek, Gazeta Wyborcza, Twoj Styl, and other magazines in Poland.Antonia Lloyd-Jones has translated works by several of Poland’s leading contemporary novelists and reportage authors, as well as crime fiction, science fiction, poetry and children’s books. She learned Polish as an adult, after graduating from Oxford University in Russian and Ancient Greek. Her translation of Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by 2018 Nobel Prize laureate Olga Tokarczuk was shortlisted for the 2019 Man Booker International prize. She is a mentor for the Emerging Translators’ Mentorship Programme and for the CELA project, and former co-chair of the UK Translators Association. She lives in London, UK.