Carol Bensimon was born in the southern Brazilian city of Porto Alegre, in 1982. She is the author of a story collection and three novels. In 2012 she was selected by Granta as one of the Best Young Brazilian Novelists.

Beth Fowler has been a freelance translator since 2009, working from Portuguese and Spanish to English, and has a degree in Hispanic Studies from the University of Glasgow. After winning the Harvill Secker Young Translators' Prize in 2010, she began to move her focus from commercial to literary translation. Her published translations include Open Door by Iosi Havilio (2011, And Other Stories Publishing), Paradises by Iosi Havilio (2013, And Other Stories Publishing) and Ten Women by Marcela Serrano (2013, Amazon Crossing). She lives near Glasgow, Scotland, with her husband and two children.