LILIANA V. BLUM lives in Ciudad Madero, Mexico. She is the author of The Curse of Eve and Other Stories, forthcoming from Host Publications. In the US, Toshiya Kamei has published translations of her stories in Eclectica, The Pedestal Magazine, storySouth, and elsewhere.

TOSHIYA KAMEI is the translator of The Curse of Eve and Other Stories and an MFA student in translation at the University of Arkansas. Kamei's translations of Mexican poetry and fiction have recently appeared in International Poetry Review, Concho River Review, and The Modern Review.