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Gabriela Jauregui (b. Mexico City) is a writer, translator, and editor. She is the author of the novel Feral (forthcoming from Feminist Press), winner of the Mexican National Fine Arts Award and finalist for the Amazon First Novel Prize, as well as Many Fiestas, Leash Seeks Lost Bitch, Controlled Decay, and the short story collection La memoria de las cosas. She coedited and coauthored the collection Tsunami: Women’s Voices from Mexico, now out from Feminist Press. She is a Paul and Daisy Soros New American Fellow and a Borchard Fellow. She is based in Mexico City.
Heather Cleary is an award-winning translator whose work with the poetry and prose of writers including Fernanda Trías, Dahlia de la Cerda, Sergio Chejfec, and Oliverio Girondo has been recognized by the International Booker Prize, English PEN, and the National Book Foundation, among others; her translation of Luis Felipe Fabre’s Recital of the Dark Verses won the Queen Sofía Spanish Institute Prize. She has published widely on literature in translation, coedited Tsunami: Women’s Voices from Mexico, and is the author of The Translator's Visibility: Scenes from Contemporary Latin American Fiction. She is currently writing a novel about translation and betrayal. She is based in Mexico City.
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