Rosa Montero is an acclaimed novelist and award-winning journalist. A native of Madrid and the daughter of a professional bullfighter, Montero published her first novel at age twenty-eight and has gone on to publish twenty-six books. She has won Spain's top book award, the Qué Leer Prize, twice, as well as the National Prize for Literature. Her works have been translated into over twenty languages.  

Lindsey Ford is a translator from Spanish to English, based in Hong Kong and London. She has a BA in English and Spanish from the University of Oxford, and a Diploma in Translation from the Chartered Institute of Linguists. She was runner up in the inaugural Harvill Secker Young Translators' Prize.