Katarzyna Bazarnik: liberature theoretician, translator, Joyce scholar, teaches English literature at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. She edited several volumes of essays, including James Joyce and After. Writer and Time (2010), and wrote Joyce and Liberature (2011). She runs, with Zenon Fajfer, Liberatura imprint of Ha!art Publishers, and Liberature Reading Room in Krakow. Together they published a triple codex Oka-leczenie (2000), the first book described as liberature, and (O)patrzenie (2003). Their most recent work is Liberty Poem, a poetic action carried out on Wall Street in New york (25.09.2011) and in Chicago (3.10.2011).

Zenon Fajfer: Polish poet, creator and theoretician of liberature, a new literary genre integrating text and the material shape of a book into a meaningful whole. He published Oka-leczenie (2000) and (O)patrzenie (2003), written with Katarzyna Bazarnik, and individual works: the bottle-book Spoglądając przez ozonową dziurę (2004), a bilingual poetry volume ten letters (2010) and Liberature or Total Literature. Collected Essays 1999-2009 (2010). Fajfer invented a poetic form called the ‘emanational poem.’