Andrés Barba is the award-winning author of numerous books, including Such Small Hands and The Right Intention. He was one of Granta’s Best Young Spanish novelists and received the Premio Herralde for his most recent novel, Luminous Republic, which was translated into over twenty languages. He lives in Argentina.

Lisa Dillman is a translator from the Spanish whose work has been twice named a finalist for the National Book Award, shortlisted for the Dublin Literary Award, and received the Best Translated Book Award and Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize. She teaches at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.