CARLA GUELFENBEIN is the author of five novels and several short stories, which have appeared in magazines and anthologies. Her work has been translated into fourteen languages. In 2015 Contigo en la distancia won the prestigious Alfaguara Prize. Before becoming a writer, Guelfenbein studied biology at Essex University and graphic design at St. Martin’s School of Art in London. In her home country of Chile, she worked as an art director for BBDO and as a fashion editor at Elle.

JOHN CULLEN is the translator of may books from Spanish, French, German, and Italian, including Philippe Claudel’s Brodeck, Juli Zeh’s Decompression, Kamel Daoud’s The Meursault Investigation, and David Trueba’s Blitz. He lives in upstate New York.