The Argentine writer Gabriela Cabezón Cámara (b. 1968) has worked at varied jobs, from selling car insurance in the street to cultural journalism. She is the author of the novels Slum Virgin, Romance of the Blonde Brunette, and The Adventures of China Iron, which was shortlisted for the International Booker and Médicis prizes. She is an environmental activist and a co-founder of the feminist movement Ni una menos. Robin Myers is a Mexico City-based poet and translator. A 2023 National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellow, she has been longlisted twice for the National Translation Award in poetry and won the 2019 Poems in Translation Contest (Words Without Borders / Academy of American Poets). Her work has appeared in Granta, The Baffler, Kenyon Review, and elsewhere.

"A hallucinatory, innocent, fanciful and redemptive book. Cabezón Cámara’s historical fiction plays out like confession or revelation, a piece of real-unreal colonial apocrypha, glowing white hot, dancing like the heart of a pyre."

The Argentine writer Gabriela Cabezón Cámara (b. 1968) has worked at varied jobs, from selling car insurance in the street to cultural journalism. She is the author of the novels Slum Virgin, Romance of the Blonde Brunette, and The Adventures of China Iron, which was shortlisted for the International Booker and Médicis prizes. She is an environmental activist and a co-founder of the feminist movement Ni una menos. Robin Myers is a Mexico City-based poet and translator. A 2023 National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellow, she has been longlisted twice for the National Translation Award in poetry and won the 2019 Poems in Translation Contest (Words Without Borders / Academy of American Poets). Her work has appeared in Granta, The Baffler, Kenyon Review, and elsewhere.

"A hallucinatory, innocent, fanciful and redemptive book. Cabezón Cámara’s historical fiction plays out like confession or revelation, a piece of real-unreal colonial apocrypha, glowing white hot, dancing like the heart of a pyre."

The Argentine writer Gabriela Cabezón Cámara (b. 1968) has worked at varied jobs, from selling car insurance in the street to cultural journalism. She is the author of the novels Slum Virgin, Romance of the Blonde Brunette, and The Adventures of China Iron, which was shortlisted for the International Booker and Médicis prizes. She is an environmental activist and a co-founder of the feminist movement Ni una menos. Robin Myers is a Mexico City-based poet and translator. A 2023 National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellow, she has been longlisted twice for the National Translation Award in poetry and won the 2019 Poems in Translation Contest (Words Without Borders / Academy of American Poets). Her work has appeared in Granta, The Baffler, Kenyon Review, and elsewhere.

"A hallucinatory, innocent, fanciful and redemptive book. Cabezón Cámara’s historical fiction plays out like confession or revelation, a piece of real-unreal colonial apocrypha, glowing white hot, dancing like the heart of a pyre."