Mónica Ojeda is the author of the novels La desfiguración Silva, Nefando, and Mandíbula (published in English as Jawbone), 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.

Sarah Booker is an educator and literary translator. Her translations include Mónica Ojeda’s Nefando and Jawbone, Gabriela Ponce’s Blood Red, and Cristina Rivera Garza’s Death Takes Me (co-translated with Robin Myers), New and Selected Stories, Grieving: Dispatches from a Wounded Country, and The Iliac Crest. She has a PhD in Hispanic Literature from UNC-Chapel Hill and is currently based in Morganton, North Carolina where she teaches at the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics. She is an associate editor with Southwest Review.