Laurent Tillon is head of biodiversity at France's National Forestry Office, in charge of drawing up inventories of forest fauna, especially mammals and batrachians.
He is the author of Listening to Nature (Payot, 2018), the bestselling Being An Oak (Actes Sud, 2021), and Night Phantoms: Bats and humans (Actes Sud, 2023).
He lives in the heart of Rambouillet Forest.

Jessica Moore is an author and Booker-nominated literary translator. She is a former Lannan writer-in-residence and Banff International Literary Translation Centre alumnus, as well as a former VP for the Literary Translators' Association of Canada.
Jessica lives in Toronto, near the shores of Lake Ontario, that inland sea.