Alejandra Kamiya is a Japanese-Argentine writer. Born in Buenos Aires, she has published three collections of short stories and won numerous awards for her writing, including the Horacio Quiroga Award and the Konex Award. The Fallen Trees Are Also the Forest is her first book to be translated into English.Daniel Hahn is a writer, editor, and translator with around a hundred books to his name. His work includes translations from Europe, Africa, and the Americas, and If This Be Magic: The Unlikely Art of Shakespeare in Translation. He is the winner of the 2023 Ottaway Award for the Promotion of International Literature.