Lia Swope Mitchell is a writer and translator from Minneapolis, with a PhD in French from the University of Minnesota. Her fiction has appeared in Apex, Shimmer, Terraform, and Cosmos, among other places. Her translation of Georges Didi-Huberman’s Survival of the Fireflies was released from Univocal/University of Minnesota Press in September 2018, and her translation of Antoine Volodine’s Alto Solois forthcoming in 2020.