Mouthful of Birds

ABOUT THE TRANSLATOR

Megan McDowell has translated books by Alejandro Zambra, Mariana Enriquez, Lina Meruane, and Diego Zuñiga, among others. Her translation of Zambra’s novel Ways of Going Home won the 2013 English PEN Award for Writing in Translation, and her translation of Samanta Schweblin’s first novel, Fever Dream, was shortlisted for the 2017 Man Booker International Prize. McDowell’s story translations have appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Harper’s, Tin House, Granta, and Vice, among others. She is from Kentucky and now lives in Santiago, Chile.