Rodrigo Hasbún is a Bolivian writer and screenwriter. He is the author of eight works of fiction and nonfiction, including the novel Affections (Simon & Schuster), which received an English PEN Award and has been translated into twelve languages. Named one of Granta's Best Young Spanish-Language Novelists in 2010, Hasbún's short stories have appeared in Granta, McSweeney's, Zoetrope: All-Story, Words Without Borders, and elsewhere. He lives and works in Houston.

Lily Meyer is a translator, a critic, and the author of the novels The End of Romance and Short War. She is a staff writer at The Atlantic. Her translations include Claudia Ulloa Donoso's Little Bird and Ice for Martians, Abraham Jimenez Enoa's The Hidden Island, and Clara Usón's The Shy Assassin.