Amparo Dávila (1928–2020) was one of Mexico’s masters of the short story. She won the Xavier Villaurrutia Prize for her collection Árboles petrificados in 1977, the Medalla Bellas Artes for her career’s work in 2015, and the Jorge Ibargüengoitia Prize in 2020. Her collected fiction and poetry is published by Fondo de Cultura Económica in Mexico, and her first collection in English was The Houseguest and Other Stories (New Directions). “The Rest Pavilion” was originally published in Cuentos reunidos.

Matthew Gleeson is the co-translator, with Audrey Harris, of Amparo Dávila’s The Houseguest and Other Stories (New Directions), the translator of José Revueltas’s Earthly Days (Archive 48), and the author of Las consustanciaciones (Cuatro Triángulos).

AUDREY HARRIS is the co-translator, with Matthew Gleeson, of Amparo Dávila’s The Houseguest and Other Stories (New Directions). Her essays and poetry have been published in The Paris Review Daily, Chasqui, Chirricú, Variaciones Borges, Transmotion, Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere. She teaches in the César E. Chávez Department of Chicana/o and Central American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.