About the Author

Israel Centeno was born in Venezuela in 1958. He has published 14 books, primarily novels but short story and poetry collections as well. He is regarded as one of the most important Venezuelan literary figures of the last fifty years. He has won the Federico Garcia Lorca Award in Spain and the National Council of Culture Award in Venezuela. Since 2011, he has lived in Pittsburgh with his wife and two daughters, as an exiled writer-in-residence at City of Asylum Pittsburgh. Guillermo Parra is a poet and translator. HIs translations include Jose Antonio Ramos Sucre: Selected Works and Sucre's, From the Livid Country. His own books of poems include Phantasmal Repeats and Caracas Notebook. He lives in Clearwater, FL.