Ruben Gallo Author & Editor

A scholar, fiction writer, and critic, Gonzalo Celorio lives in Mexico City, where he has been head of UNAM's Latin American Literature Department since 1974. He is also author of the novels Amor Propio and Tres Lindas Cubanas; this is his first novel to be translated into English.

DICK GERDES is an award-winning translator based in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Rubén Gallo is Associate Professor of Spanish-American Literature at Princeton University and editor of The Mexico City Reader, an acclaimed anthology about Mexico's capital city.