Cole Swensen is an American poet, translator and publisher. Her translation of Now, Now, Louison was a French-American Foundation Translation Prize finalist. Swensen was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2004 and the recipient of a PEN USA Award for her translation of Fremon's The Island of the Dead. She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2006.

Studded with five gouache drawings by Louise Bourgeois, this erudite, witty fable by the acclaimed author of Now, Now, Louison (2018) considers the ambiguous figure of the baby Jesus and its representation in the artistic canon.' 'One day in 2007,' recalls Jean Fremon about a visit to artist Louise Bourgeois's studio, 'I discovered an entirely new series of drawings.... silhouettes of women with embryos in their wombs, drawn with a brush full of water and red gouache. These drawings were, for me, the most poignant of her long career.'