Dahlia de la Cerda is a writer and activist based in Aguascalientes, Mexico. She is the author of Perras de Reserva, which won the 2019 Premio Nacional de Cuento Joven Comala, and Desde los Zulos. She is also the cofounder of the feminist organization Morras Help Morras. Reservoir Bitches is her English-language debut.
Julia Sanches translates literature from Spanish, Portuguese, and Catalan into English. Born in Brazil, she now lives in Providence, Rhode Island.
Heather Cleary is an award-winning translator of poetry and prose whose work has been recognized by English PEN, the National Book Foundation, and the Mellon Foundation, among others. She teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and is the author of The Translator’s Visibility: Scenes from Contemporary Latin American Fiction.
Julia Sanches is a literary translator working from Portuguese, Spanish, and Catalan. Recent translations include Boulder by Eva Baltasar, shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2023. Born in Brazil, she currently resides in the United States.
Heather Cleary is an award-winning translator whose work with the poetry and prose of writers including Fernanda Trías, María Ospina, Roque Larraquy, Sergio Chejfec, and Oliverio Girondo has been recognized by English PEN, the National Book Foundation, the Best Translated Book Award, and the Mellon Foundation, among others. A member of the Cedilla & Co. translation collective, she was a founding editor of the digital, multilingual Buenos Aires Review. She holds a PhD in Latin American and Iberian cultures from Columbia University, and teaches at Sarah Lawrence College. She is the author of The Translator's Visibility: Scenes from Contemporary Latin American Fiction, and is currently writing a novel about translation and betrayal.
Gabriela Jauregui is the author of the novel Feral, the poetry collections Many Fiestas, Leash Seeks Lost Bitch, and Controlled Decay, and the short story collection La memoria de las cosas. She edited and coauthored two essay collections, Tsunami and Tsunami 2, published in Spanish in 2018 and 2021 respectively. She holds a PhD in comparative literature from USC, an MFA in creative writing from UC Riverside, and an MA in critical theory from UC Irvine. She is a Soros New American Fellow and a Borchard Fellow, and was selected as part of the Hay Festival's Bogotá 39 best young authors in Latin America. She is cofounder of the Aura Estrada Prize for young women writers and teaches at the National Autonomous University in Mexico (UNAM).
