Cristina Rivera Garza is the award-winning author of The Taiga Syndrome, The Iliac Crest, among many other books. Her memoir, Lilianaโs Invincible Summer, won the Pulitzer Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Award. A recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship and the Sor Juana Inรฉs de la Cruz Prize, Rivera Garza is the Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished Chair and director of the PhD program in creative writing in Spanish at the University of Houston.
Sarah Booker is a teacher and literary translator. Her translations include novels by Mรณnica Ojeda, Cristina Rivera Garza, and Gabriela Ponce. She is also an associate editor with Southwest Review.
Robin Myers is a poet and translator. Her translations include Andrรฉs Neumanโs Bariloche, Claudia Peรฑa Clarosโs The Trees, Isabel Zapataโs In Vitro, Eliana Hernรกndez-Pachรณnโs The Brush, and Cristina Rivera Garzaโs The Restless Dead: Necrowriting and Disappropriation.