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Gabriela Alemán, based in Quito, Ecuador, has played professional basketball in Switzerland and Paraguay and has worked as a waitress, administrator, translator, radio scriptwriter, and film studies professor. She received a PhD at Tulane University and holds a Master's degree in Latin American Literature from Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar. Her literary honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2006; member of Bogotá 39, a 2007 selection of the most important up-and-coming writers in Latin America in the post-Boom generation; one of five finalists for the 2015 Premio Hispanoamericano de Cuento Gabriel García Márquez (Colombia) for her story collection _La muerte silba un blues_ ; and winner of several prizes for critical essays on literature and film. Her other books include the short story collections, _Maldito corazón_ , _Zoom_ , _Fuga permanente_ , and _Álbum de familia_ ; her novels in Spanish include _Body Time_ , _Poso Wells_ , and _Humo_. Her stories have appeared in anthologies in French, English, Chinese, Hebrew, and Serbo- Croatian. This is her first full-length work to appear in English. Dick Cluster is a writer and translator living in Oakland, California. He is editor/translator of the recently released _Kill the Ámpaya!: Best Latin American Baseball Fiction_ , and co-author with Rafael Hernández of _History of Havana_. His many published translations include fiction and poetry from the Caribbean, Chile, Mexico, Colombia, and Spain.