About Mica Ojeda Books
Mica Ojeda (Ecuador, 1988) is the author of the novels La desfiguraci Silva (Premio Alba Narrativa, 2014), Nefando (Candaya, 2016), and Mand兊ula (Candaya, 2018), as well as the poetry collections El ciclo de las piedras (Rastro de la Iguana, 2015) and Historia de la leche (Candaya, 2020). Her stories have been published in the anthology Emergencias: Doce cuentos iberoamericanos (Candaya, 2014) and the collections Caninos (Editorial Turbina, 2017) and Las voladoras (P疊inas de Espuma, 2020). In 2017, she was included on the Bota39 list of the best thirty-nine Latin American writers under forty, and in 2019, she received the Prince Claus Next Generation Award in honor of her outstanding literary achievements.Sarah Booker is an educator and literary translator. Her translations include Mica Ojeda's Jawbone, Gabriela Ponce's Blood Red, and Cristina Rivera Garza's New and Selected Stories, Grieving: Dispatches from a Wounded Country, and The Iliac Crest. She has a PhD in Hispanic Literature from UNC-Chapel Hill and is currently based in Morganton, North Carolina where she teaches Spanish at the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics.
