Leila Guerriero

LEILA GUERRIERO is an Argentine journalist and writer. She began her career at the magazine Página/30, and since then her work has appeared in various publications in Latin America and Europe: Argentina’s La nación and Rolling Stone; Spain’s El país; Brazil’s Piauí; Colombia’s El malpensante and SoHo; the U.K.’s Granta; and others. She is also the Latin America editor for the Mexican magazine Gatopardo and the author of nine other books.

MEGAN McDOWELL has translated many of the most important Latin American writers working today. Her translations have won the National Book Award for Translated Literature, the English PEN award, the Premio Valle-Inclán, and two O. Henry Prizes, and have been nominated for the International Booker Prize (four times) and the Kirkus Prize. Her short story translations have been featured in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The New York Times Magazine, Tin House, McSweeney’s, and Granta, among others. In 2020 she won an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She is from Richmond, Kentucky, and lives in Santiago, Chile.