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Helene Cixous was born in Oran, Algeria, and is emeritus professor of literature at the Université Paris VIII, where she founded and directed the Centre de recherches en études féminines. She is the author of more than seventy works of fiction, plays, and collections of critical essays; recent titles in English translation include So Close , Zero’s Neighbour: Sam Beckett, Hemlock, and Philippines. In her 1975 essay ‘The Laugh of the Medusa’, she created the term écriture féminine to describe a uniquely feminine style of writing.

Helene Cixous was born in Oran, Algeria, and is emeritus professor of literature at the Université Paris VIII, where she founded and directed the Centre de recherches en études féminines. She is the author of more than seventy works of fiction, plays, and collections of critical essays; recent titles in English translation include So Close , Zero’s Neighbour: Sam Beckett, Hemlock, and Philippines. In her 1975 essay ‘The Laugh of the Medusa’, she created the term écriture féminine to describe a uniquely feminine style of writing.

Sophie Lewis is a London-born translator and editor. Working from Portuguese and French, she has translated works by Victor Heringer, Cidinha da Silva, Patrícia Melo, Joao Gilberto Noll, Sheyla Smanioto and Micheliny Verunschk; as well as Marcel Ayme, Josephine Baker, Annie Ernaux, Violette Leduc, Noemi Lefebvre, Nastassja Martin, Françoise Sagan, Leila Slimani, Stendhal and Jules Verne, among others. With Gitanjali Patel, she co-founded the Shadow Heroes translation workshops enterprise. Lewis’s translations have been shortlisted for the Scott Moncrieff and Republic of Consciousness prizes, and longlisted for the International Booker Prize. She won the 2022 French-American Foundation prize for non-fiction translation with Martin’s anthropology memoir In the Eye of the Wild. Her co-translation with Laura Garmeson of Smanioto’s novel Out of Earth was highly commended for the 2024 Republic of Consciousness Prize.

Jamieson Webster is a psychoanalyst in New York City. She is the author of several books, most recently On Breathing , and a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books .