Zviad Kvaratskhelia is a contemporary Georgian writer. He graduated from the Faculty of Jurisprudence at the Shota Meskhia Zugdidi State Institute in Georgia. From 2007 to 2008, Kvaratskhelia worked as the art editor of the public magazine Premieri. Shortly after, from 2010 to 2011, he worked as the deputy editor of the Kartuli Mtserloba magazine. Currently, he is the publishing projects coordinator and editor-in-chief for the Intelekti and Artanuji publishing houses. He is also the author and editor of several publication projects. He has published short stories and literary essays in Georgian periodicals, and his work has been translated to Turkish, Azerbaijani and English. In 2014, his book Form No. 100 won the prestigious SABA Award in The Year’s Best Novelcategory. Kvaratskhelia lives in Tbilisi, Georgia.

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Mary Childs is a Lecturer at the University of Washington, in the Department of Comparative History of Ideas. Her scholarly interests focus on post-colonialism and the climate crisis, identity politics, intergenerational trauma, and women’s studies, and she teaches courses on the Black Sea Region, Georgian Cinema, Russian Translation, and Environmental Humanities. She has led study abroad trips to Georgia since 2009, writes about contemporary Georgian culture, and translates Georgian literature, primarily contemporary authors. She also hosts a website, The Georgian Digital Text Collective, dedicated to the dual-language presentation of Georgian literature.

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