Martha Tennent received her Ph.D. in English from the University of Barcelona and served as the founding dean of the School of Translation and Interpreting at the University of Vic. She has regularly translated between Spanish, Catalan, and English, and her translations have appeared in Two Lines, Words Without Borders, eXchanges, and Review of Contemporary Fiction. She has received many accolades and awards for her translations, including a Literature Translation Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts for this collection.