SARA MESA is the author of ten works of fiction, including Scar (winner of the Ojo Critico Prize), Four by Four (a finalist for the Herralde Prize), An Invisible Fire (winner of the Premio Málaga de Novela), Among the Hedges, Un amor, which was named by several Spanish newspapers as the book of the year for 2020, and, most recently, La familia. Her works have been translated into more than ten different languages, and she has been widely praised for her concise, sharp writing style.

KATIE WHITTEMORE translates from the Spanish. Her full-length translations include works by Sara Mesa, Javier Serena, Aroa Moreno Durán, Lara Moreno, Nuria Labari, and Katixa Agirre. Forthcoming translations include novels by Jon Bilbao, Juan Gómez Bárcena, Almudena Sánchez, Aliocha Coll, and Pilar Adón. She received an NEA Translation Fellowship in 2022 to translate Moreno’s In Case We Lose Power.