From his publication of Somiglianze at the age of 25, Milo De Angelis has garnered much recognition. Known beyond his poetry for his literary essays and his translations of Virgil, Lucretius, Racine, Baudelaire, Blanchot, and others, in the 1970's he founded the literary journal Il Niebo. In 2005, his Tema dell'addio was awarded the Premio Viareggio. In 2011 Quell'andarsene was awarded the Premio Cetonaverde, the Premio Pascoli, the Premio Romagna, and the Premio Mondello. Incontri e agguati received the Premio Dessì, the Premio Nazionale di Poesia "Luciana Notari," and the Premio Castello di Villalta Poesia in 2016. In 2017, De Angelis was awarded the prestigious Premio Lerici Pea for his body of work.

Susan Stewart, the Avalon Foundation University Professor in the Humanities at Princeton University, is a poet, critic, and translator. A former MacArthur Fellow and Chancellor of the Academy of American poets, she is the author of six books of poems, including Columbarium, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award, and, most recently, Cinder: New and Selected Poems. Her many prose works include On Longing, Poetry and the Fate of the Senses, The Open Studio: Essays in Art and Aesthetics, and The Poet's Freedom. Her forthcoming book The Ruins Lesson: Meaning and Material in Western Culture will be available from The University of Chicago Press in Fall 2019.

Patrizio Ceccagnoli is a translator, a managing editor of Italian Poetry Review, and a professor of Italian at the University of Kansas. He has edited multiple unpublished manuscripts by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, for which he was nominated for the Marino Moretti Award. He has also been nominated for the American Literary Translator's Association Annual Award for his work co-translating Milo De Angelis.