Maryam Farnam is a poet, translator and literary editor and a master graduate of Persian literature and linguistics. Madness and death have a special place in the themes of her poetry. Her work is above all a personal human experience involved with the past and daily life. She is currently working on a long poem with the theme of “madness.” / Kamran Baradaran is an Iranian author, critic, translator and journalist. He has translated various philosophical and literary works into Persian, including works by Jean Baudrillard, Antonio Gramsci, Paul Virilio, Slavoj Žižek, Hector Munro, and Luigi Pirandello. Baradaran has also published a book on feminine writing titled Écriture Féminine: Improvisation in the Mist.