Andres Barba was first known internationally as a Granta Best Young Spanish Novelist and as the author of Such Small Hands and Luminous Republic. He has been awarded the Torrente Ballester Prize, the Juan March Prize, the Anagrama Essay Prize, the Premio Herralde, and has been the finalist of the Premio Gregor von Rezzori XIII. He is one of the most renowned Spanish authors today.

Lisa Dillman is Professor of Practice in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Emory University. Her work has won multiple awards, including the Best Translated Book Award and the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize, and twice been finalist for a National Book Award. Lisa has translated thirty-some novels by Spanish and Latin American authors including Yuri Herrera, Sabina Berman, Alejandra Costamagna, Pilar Quintana, and Graciela Mochkovsky. Her most recent translation, Season of the Swamp, by Yuri Herrera, was a finalist for the LA Times Book Award and won the Queen Sofia Translation Award.