Alejandro Zambra is a Chilean writer, poet, and critic. His first novel Bonsai was awarded Chile's Literary Critics' Award for Best Novel. He is also the author of The Private Lives of Trees and Ways of Going Home, which won the Altazor Award and the National Council Prize for Books, both for the best Chilean novel. My Documents, published by Fitzcarraldo Editions in 2015, was shortlisted for the 2015 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Prize. His latest novel is Multiple Choice. His writing has appeared in the New Yorker, the Paris Review, Tin House, Harper's, and McSweeney's, among other places. He was selected as one of the Best of Young Spanish-Language Novelists by Granta in 2010. He lives in Mexico City.

Megan McDowell has translated many modern and contemporary South American authors, including Alejandro Zambra, Arturo Fontaine, Carlos Busqued, Álvaro Bisama and Juan Emar. Her translations have been published in the New Yorker, McSweeney's, Words Without Borders, Mandorla, and Vice, among others. She lives in Santiago, Chile.