ÖMER F. OYAL was born in Istanbul. Oyal received his Business Management degree from Boğaziçi University in 1982. A regular contributor to several literary magazines, he is currently working as a reporter on Central Asian and Caucasian affairs. Oyal received the Ankara University Novel Prize in 2016 for When Magda Returns; and the Yunus Nadi Novel Prize in 2020 for No Room on Board.FEYZA HOWELL was born in Izmir. Throughout her professional life, Howell has always drawn, written and translated. Her dream of spreading the appeal of Turkish literature to a wider audience finally came true when she chose to focus on translation full-time. Today, her backlist numbers over fifty titles, including Snapping Point by Aslı Biçen; The Highly Unreliable Account of the History of a Madhouse by Ayfer Tunç; and Izmirli, My Last Love by Firat Sunel.