**Carla Maliandi **was born in Venezuela in 1976 but grew up in Argentina where she now lives. She is an award-winning playwright, theatre director, university lecturer and writer. She has written and directed five theatre plays, which were all staged in Buenos Aires as well as in different international theatre festivals. She has also co-written several other plays. She is part of the writers' collective _Rioplatensas _as part of which she directs a literary journal and a TV programme. Her plays _Espejo en el desierto _(Mirror in the desert) and _Regen _(Rain) appeared in an anthology published by the National Theatre Institute of Argentina, and her short story _Indio _(Indian) was included in a short story collection entitled _Zona de cuentos _(Short Story Zone). _The German Room _is her début novel, chosen by several critics as one of the best books to come out of Argentina in 2017. It is also her first book to be translated into English.

Frances Riddle lives in Buenos Aires, where she works as a translator, writer, and editor. She holds an MA in translation studies from the University of Buenos Aires and a BA in Spanish literature. Her book-length publications include A Simple Story by Leila Guerriero (New Directions, 2017); Bodies of Summer by Martín Felipe Castagnet (Dalkey Archive Press, 2017); and The Life and Deaths of Ethel Jurado (Hispabooks, 2017). This is her fourth title for Charco Press after Slum Virgin by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara (2017), The German Room by Carla Maliandi (2018) and Theatre of War by Andrea Jeftanovic (2020).