Alberto Ruy-Sánchez is a Mexican Writer and Editor, born in 1951 and author of seventeen books of fiction, non-fiction and poetry. His novel Mogador, published by City Lights in San Francisco in 1993, was awarded the Xavier Villaurrutia Prize, the most prestigious literary recognition in Mexico. Rhonda Dahl Buchanan is a professor of Spanish and Director of Latin American Studies at the University of Louisville, KY and the recipient of a 2006 NEA translation fellowship. Her other books of translation include The Entre Rios Trilogy by Argentine writer Perla Suez, and Quick Fix by Ana Maria Shua.