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Mateo García Elizondo Author

Mateo García Elizondo (Mexico City, 1987) is a screenwriter and author. His work has appeared in magazines such as NexosRevista Casa de las AméricasQuimera, Origami, and Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos . He has written scripts for film and graphic narrative, including the screenplay for the feature film Desierto (2015), which won the FIPRESCI prize at the Toronto International Film Festival. His debut novel, Last Date in El Zapotal, won the City of Barcelona Award for fiction written in Spanish. In 2021 he was listed by Granta magazine as one of the world's best writers in Spanish under thirty-five years of age.

Robin Myers is a New York-born poet and translator. Her translations have appeared or are forthcoming from the_Kenyon Review_ , the_Harvard Review_ , Two LinesThe Offing ,JournalAsymptote , the Los Angeles Review of Books , and Inventory . In 2009, she was named a fellow of the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA); in 2014, she was awarded a residency at the Banff Literary Translation Centre (BILTC); and in 2017, and she was selected to participate in the feminist translation colloquium A-Fest. Recent book-length translations include Lyric Poetry Is Dead by Ezequiel Zaidenwerg, Animals at the End of the World by Gloria Susana Esquivel, In Vitro by Isabel Zapata and Bariloche by Andrés Neuman.