Raymond Queneau was a novelist, philosopher, poet, mathematician, and translator, and a leading figure in 20th-century French literary life. He cofounded OuLiPo, a group of experimental writers and mathematicians whose members included Italo Calvino and Georges Perec, in 1960, and it is the longest running literary group in French history. Rachel Galvin is a poet, translator, editor, and academic who teaches comparative literature at Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of a collection of poems, Pulleys & Locomotion. She lives in Baltimore, Maryland.