Kostas Myrsiades is an emeritus professor of English and Comparative Literature of the Department of English at the West Chester University in Philadelpheia, Pennsylvania, where he taught courses on Greek and European literature. Myrsiades, born in Samos, Greece, studied comparative literature at Indiana University from where he received his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees concentrating on modern Greek and classic literature. Myrsiades is a translator of Modern Greek poetry having published translations of Ritsos, Papatsōnēs, Yannis Kondos, and many other contemporary Greek poets as well as translations of plays of karagōz, the modern Greek shadow theater. He wrote numerous articles on Ritsos, Seferis, Papatsōnēs, Kazantzakis and Homer. He is also author of several books. In 1995, he received the Gold Medallion from the Hellenic Society of Translators of Literature, an award presented annually by the Greek Government to a scholar from any country. He was the editor of College Literature, a journal for college and university teaching, criticism, and theory, and coeditor of the Journal of the Hellenic Diaspora.

Linda Myrsiades is professor emerita of English and comparative literature at West Chester University of Pennsylvania and and has published articles on Greek theater, law and literature, and business communication. She is also author of several books. Along with Kostas Myrsiades they coetided Margins in the Classroom: Teaching Literature(1994) and Race-ing Representation: Voice, History, and Sexuality (1988). She was an associate editor of College Literature.