Anna Maschik was born in Vienna in 1995 and studied comparative literature and language arts in Vienna and Leipzig. She teaches German and Spanish at a Viennese high school. She has received the Start Scholarship for Literature and the Hörmannser Scholarship for dramatic writing. Her short prose and poetry have been published in anthologies and magazines. Spoil the Harvest (originally published in German under the title Wenn du es heimlich machen willst, musst du die Schafe töten) is her debut novel. It was shortlisted for the Austrian Book Prize in 2025 and nominated for the Rauris Literature Prize in 2026.

Imogen Taylor was born in London in 1978 and has been living in Berlin since 2001. She has translated work by Alfred Döblin, Julia Franck, and Judith Schlansky, and is working at present on the first volumes of Peter Kurzeck's autobiographical project The Old Century. In 2024, she was runner-up in the Schlegel-Tieck Prize and winner of the Austrian Cultural Forum Translation Prize.