Manuela Draeger Author

Manuela Draeger is a member of the imaginary collective of post-exotic writers, along with Antoine Volodine, Lutz Bassmann, and Elli Kronauer, who have produced more than forty works so far in French. She works as a containment camp librarian and has written numerous books for children as well as for an adult audience. Works that have appeared in English include In the Time of the Blue Ball, translated by novelist Brian Evenson, and Eleven Sooty Dreams, translated by J. T. Mahany.

Lia Swope Mitchell has a PhD in French from the University of Minnesota. Her translations include Solo Viola by Antoine Volodine and Survival of the Fireflies by Georges Didi-Huberman, both published by the University of Minnesota Press. Her original fiction has appeared in Asimov’s, Apex, Terraform, and elsewhere. She lives in Minneapolis.