GABRIELA PONCE (Quito, 1977) is a fiction writer, playwright, and theater director, as well as a professor of performing arts at the Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador. In 2015, she published her first book, Antropofaguitas, which was awarded the prize for the best book of short stories by the Ministry of Culture. In 2019, she published the novel Sanguínea (Severo Editorial; also published in Spain by Editorial Candaya), which was awarded the Joaquín Gallegos Lara National Fiction Prize by the Municipality of Quito for best novel of the year. In 2020, she published Solo hay un jardín: en el fondo de todo hay un jardín (La Caída Editorial), which is a collection of several of her plays. She is part of Mitómana, a performing arts collective, and is cofounder of the cultural venue Casa Mitómana. She is on the editorial board of Sycorax magazine.

SARAH BOOKER (North Carolina, 1989) is a literary translator working from Spanish to English and has translated, among others, Cristina Rivera Garza’s The Iliac Crest (Feminist Press, 2017; And Other Stories, 2018), Grieving: Dispatches from a Wounded Country (Feminist Press, 2020), and New and Selected Stories (Dorothy Press, 2022) and Mónica Ojeda’s Jawbone (Coffee House Press, 2021). Her translations have also been published in journals such as the Paris Review, Asymptote, Granta, Latin American Literature Today, 3:AM Magazine, and The Baffler. She has a PhD in Hispanic Literature from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and currently teaches Spanish in Morganton, NC.

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