Barrientos, Maximiliano: - Maximiliano Barrientos was born in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, in 1979. He is a teacher and author of the short story collections Diario (2009), Fotos tuyas cuando empiezas a envejecer (2011), and Una casa en llamas (2015), and the novels Hoteles (2011)--translated into Portuguese--La desaparición del paisaje (2015), En el cuerpo una voz (2018), and Miles de ojos (2021).
Downey, Tomás: - Tomás Downey (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1984) is a translator, screenwriter and one of the foremost short story writers in Argentina today. His work often draws comparisons to Mariana Enríquez and Samanta Schweblin. It tends to draw out the strangeness hidden beneath the surface of everyday life. He is the author of three short stories collections, Acá el tiempo es otra cosa, El lugar donde mueren los pájaros and Flores que se abren de noche.
Enriquez, Mariana: - Mariana Enriquez is a writer and journalist based in Buenos Aires. She is the author of the novel Our Share of Night as well as two short story collections, Things We Lost in the Fire and The Dangers of Smoking in Bed, all three translated by Megan McDowell. The Dangers of Smoking in Bed was a finalist for the International Booker Prize, the Kirkus Prize, the Ray Bradbury Prize for Science Fiction, Fantasy & Speculative Fiction, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Fiction.
Guevara, Lina Munar: - Lina Munar Guevara (1996) is a writer and lawyer from Bogotá, Colombia. Her novel Imagina que rompes todo [Imagine breaking everything] was published by Himpar Editores in 2022. She has written stories for Colombia Diversa based on testimonies from LGBTQI victims of the Colombian armed conflict and as a translator for the Colombian Truth Commission and the International Institute of Humanitarian Law in San Remo. She is now completing an MFA in creative writing at New York University.
Isaza, Julián: - Julian Isaza (b. 1979) is a Colombian writer and journalist. His works of fiction and nonfiction have won national and international prizes. He has published two collections of horror and science fiction stories to date.
Ojeda, Mónica: - Mónica Ojeda (Ecuador, 1988) is the author of the novels La desfiguración Silva, Nefando, and Mandíbula, as well as the poetry collections El ciclo de las piedras and Historia de la leche. Her stories have been published in the anthology Emergencias: Doce cuentos iberoamericanos and the collections Caninos and Las voladoras. In 2017, she was included on the Bógota39 list of the best thirty-nine Latin American writers under forty, and in 2019, she received the Prince Claus Next Generation Award in honor of her outstanding literary achievements.
Oliva, Antonio Diza: - Antonio Diaz Oliva (ADO) has published five books in Spanish, including the novel Campus (Chatos Inhumanos, NYC), a tragicomic and absurdist satire of the power dynamics among Latin American academics at US universities. He received the Roberto Bolaño Young Writers Award and the National Book Award for Best Story Collection in Chile. He lives in Chicago, where he works as editor at the Museum of Contemporary Art. "Rabbits" is part Gente un poco dañada, a short story collection that explores the weird and the eerie.
Sosa Villada, Camila: - Camila Sosa Villada was born in 1982 in La Falda (Córdoba, Argentina). She is a writer, actress, and singer, and previously earned a living as a sex worker, street vendor, and hourly maid. She holds degrees in communication and theater from the National University of Córdoba. Her first novel, Bad Girls (published as The Queens of Sarmiento Park in the UK), won the Premio Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and the Grand Prix de l'Héroïne Madame Figaro and will be translated into seventeen languages. I'm a Fool to Want You, from which this story is taken, will be published in spring 2024.
