Publications by Jorge Ángel Pérez include the fiction collection Lapsus calami (Ediciones Unión), winner of UNEAC’s David Prize; the novel El paseante cándido (Ediciones Unión), winner of the UNEAC Cirillo Villaverde Prize and the Italian Grinzane Cavour Award; the novel Fumando espero (Editorial Letras Cubanas), shortlisted for the Rómulo Gallegos International Novel Prize; and En La Habana no son tan elegantes (Editorial Letras Cubanas), winner of the Alejo Carpentier Short Story Prize and the Literary Critics’ Award. He lives in Havana, Cuba.

Rebecca Hanssens-Reed is a translator and writer whose work can be found in the New England Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Washington Square Review, Asymptote, and elsewhere. She has an MFA in Literary Translation from the University of Iowa, where she was also a Provost’s Postgraduate Visiting Writer. Her translation of the novel Gelsomina Inside the White Madhouses by Margarita Mateo Palmer is forthcoming from Cubanabooks Press.