Luis Sagasti, a writer, lecturer and art critic, was born in Bahía Blanca, Argentina in 1963. He graduated in History at the Universidad Nacional del Sur where he now teaches. From 1995 to 2003 he was Curator in charge of Education and Cultural Outreach at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Bahía Blanca, authoring numerous art catalogues for exhibitions. Including _Fireflies _(known in Spanish as Bellas Artes, 2011), he has published four other novels: _El Canon de Leipzig _(Leipzig's Canon, 1999), _Los mares de la Luna _(Seas of the Moon, 2006), _Maelstrom _(2015) and _Una ofrenda musical _(A Musical Offering) which came out in early 2017. He's just about to publish his most recent book, comprised entirely of footnotes.

Fionn Petch was born in Scotland, spent a decade in Mexico City and is now based in Berlin. He translates from Spanish and French, and specialises in books on art and architecture. He has curated multidisciplinary exhibitions and worked for numerous cultural festivals. He holds a doctorate in philosophy from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Fionn has also translated The Distance Between Us by Renato Cisneros and co-translated Jorge Consiglio's Fate for Charco Press. In 2018 he was shortlisted for the TA First Translation Prize for his translation of Luis Sagasti's Fireflies.