Ronelle Alexander is professor of Slavic languages and literatures at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of the two-volume Intensive Bulgarian:  A Textbook and Reference Grammar, also published by the University of Wisconsin Press.

Ellen Elias-Bursac is a language teacher and a literary translator. She taught Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbia for ten years at the Harvard University Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and now lives in Europe.