Naja Marie Aidt was born in Greenland and raised in Copenhagen. She is the author of eleven collections of poetry, a novel, and three short story collections, including * Baboon,*which won the 2008 Nordic Council Literature Prize. Her work has been translated into sixteen languages.

Naja Marie Aidt was born in Greenland and raised in Copenhagen. She is the author of eleven collections of poetry, a novel, and three short story collections, including * Baboon,*which won the 2008 Nordic Council Literature Prize. Her work has been translated into sixteen languages.

Denise Newman is a translator and poet who has published three collections of poetry. She has translated two books by Denmark's Inger Christensen. Her translation of Naja Marie Aidt's short-fiction collection* Baboon * won the 2015 PEN Translation Prize.