Sólrún Michelsen, born in Tórshavn, is a bestselling author known for her poetry, short stories, and novels for all ages. She won the Faroese Children’s Literature Award in 2002 and the M. A. Jacobsen Culture Prize in 2008, and her novel On the Other Side Is March was nominated for the Nordic Council Literature Prize in 2015. Her recent works include a historical trilogy depicting the lives of women in the Faroe Islands, starting at the close of the nineteenth century.

Marita Thomsen is from the Faroes, where the wind often roars, and now lives in Keele, where it whispers. Her love of languages and stories has crystallized into English translations of Faroese authors, while her work as a conference interpreter satisfies her curiosity and wanderlust.