Lara Moreno was born in 1978 in Seville and lives in Madrid, where she works as an editor and teaches writing. She has published the collections of short fiction Casi todas las tijeras and Cuatro Veces Fuego, as well as several books of poetry, which have been collected, along with new and unpublished poems, in the recently published Tempestad en víspera de viernes. She was awarded the FNAC New Talent Award upon the publication of her first novel, Por si se va la luz (In Case We Lose Power), which was followed in 2016 by Wolfskin. Katie Whittemore is graduate of the University of NH (BA), Cambridge University (M.Phil), and Middlebury College (MA), and was a 2018 Bread Loaf Translators Conference participant. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Two Lines, The Arkansas International, The Common Online, Gulf Coast Magazine Online, The Los Angeles Review, The Brooklyn Rail, and InTranslation. Current projects include novels by Spanish authors Sara Mesa, Javier Serena, Aliocha Coll, Aroa Moreno Durán, Nuria Labari, Katixa Agirre, and Juan Gómez Bárcena.
""I legit can't stop thinking about it. Stinging prose.""--Zeba Talkhani, author of My Past is a Foreign Country ""That violence and abuse can happen, be evident, and yet be ignored is Moreno's searing observation.""--Declan O'Driscoll, The Irish Times