Augusto Monterroso (1921-2003) was a Honduran-born Guatemalan writer. A prominent member of the Latin American Boom generation, he was known for his humorous and ironic short stories. He is the recipient of Spain's Prince of Asturias Award for Literature and the National Literature Award of Guatemala.

Aaron Kerner completed an MFA at Emerson College and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he works as an English teacher at the Commonwealth School. He translated Benedetta Craveri's The Last Libertines for New York Review Books in 2020.

Dustin Illingworth's writing has appeared in The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, The Atlantic, The Nation, Times Literary Supplement, The Baffler, New Left Review, Poetry, and The Point.