Ave Barrera (Guadalajara, 1980) es escritora y editora. Su primera novela titulada Puertas demasiado pequeñas (Alianza, 2016) obtuvo el premio Sergio Galindo. El libro de artista 21,000 Princesas, realizado en coautoría con Lola Horner obtuvo el 1er lugar en el Concurso Internacional de Libro de Artista Lía 2015. Su más reciente novela, Restauración obtuvo el Premio Lipp la Brasserie en 2018. Ha publicado sus cuentos y relatos en diversas antologías y medios electrónicos. Actualmente trabaja como editora de la Colección Vindictas, de la Dirección General de Publicaciones, de la UNAM.
Ave Barrera (Guadalajara, Mexico, 1980) holds a Bachelor in Hispanic Literature from the University of Guadalajara and for several years she worked as an editor in Oaxaca. Ave has been awarded fellowships from the Fundación Carolina for a training course on publishing at the Complutense University of Madrid and the Young Creators Grant for Novel (2010 and 2014) from the Mexican National Fund for Culture and the Arts (FONCA). Ave has worked as copywriter for e-media and once as a ghostwriter. She also writes short stories and just published the illustrated children book Una noche en el laberinto (A Night in a Labyrinth, Edebé 2014). She was recipient of the Sergio Galindo Award from the Veracruz University with her first novel Puertas demasiado pequeñas (The Forgery). She currently lives in Mexico City and is writing a new novel:Tratado de la vida marina (A Treatise of Marine Life) with the support of FONCA. Her latest novel was published in 2019 in Mexico and Spain under the title Restauración (Restoration).
Robin Myers is a poet, translator, essayist, and 2023 NEA Translation Fellow. Recent translations include What Comes Back by Javier Peñalosa M. (Copper Canyon Press); The Brush by Eliana Hernández-Pachón (Archipelago Books); A Whale Is a Country (Fonograf Editions) and In Vitro (Coffee House Press), both by Isabel Zapata; Bariloche by Andrés Neuman (Open Letter Books); and many other works of poetry and prose from across Latin America. Her poems have appeared in Best American Poetry ,Yale Review ,The Drift , Poetry London, and elsewhere; her essays, in Los Angeles Review of Books , Words Without Borders , and Latin American Literature Today .
