Jorge Consiglio was born in Buenos Aires in 1962. He has published several novels including: El bien (2003; Award for Emerging Writers, Opera Prima, Spain), Gramática de la sombra (2007; Third Municipal Prize for Novels), Pequeñas intenciones (2011; Second National Prize for Novels, First Municipal Prize for Novels), Hospital Posadas (2015), Tres Monedas (2018), published by Charco Press as Fate (2020), and Sodio (2021). He has also published three collections of short stories, including Villa del Parque (2016), published by Charco as Southerly (2018), five books of poems and a book of essays.

Cherilyn Elston is an academic and translator, who specialises in Latin American history and literature. She holds a doctorate in Latin American Studies from the University of Cambridge and is the author of Women's Writing in Colombia: An Alternative History (2016). As the managing editor of Palabras Errantes , she has edited and published more than 150 translations of Latin American writers. She is a Lecturer in Spanish and Latin American Studies at the University of Reading.