Carlos Maleno is a short-story writer, novelist, and sales broker for a produce company in Almería, Spain, the place of his birth and his current residence. His debut, The Irish Sea (Dalkey, 2017), won Spain’s Argaria Prize for Best Narrative Work in 2014.

Eric Kurtzke is a translator. He graduated with a BA in English Literature from the University of Notre Dame. He has worked as an assistant editor for Dalkey Archive. He is now working on a number of translations from Spanish. His translation of Maleno’s The Irish Sea was shortlisted for the Queen Sofía Spanish Institute Translation Prize in 2018. Don’t miss his translation of Alberto Olmos’s short story “Every Last One, Place and Date,” in Best European Fiction 2019 (Dalkey Archive). Eric Kurtzke is based in Falls Church, Virginia.