Considered to be one of the authors forming part of the 'new Latin American Boom' of women writers, Fernanda Trías (Uruguay, 1976) is without doubt one of the most prominent literary voices in today's River Plate region and in all of Latin America. Her books have been published in Spain as well as in Colombia, Bolivia, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Mexico, and also in France. However, none of her books have have appeared in English until now.

Annie McDermott 's translations include Mario Levrero's Empty Words and The Luminous Novel (And Other Stories and Coffee House Press), Feebleminded by Ariana Harwicz (co-translation with Carolina Orloff, Charco Press) and City of Ulysses by Teolinda Gersão (co-translation with Jethro Soutar, Dalkey Archive Press). Her translations, reviews and essays have appeared in Granta , The White Review , World Literature Today , Asymptote , the Times Literary Supplement and LitHub , among others. She has translated several books by Selva Almada, including: Dead Girls (2020) and Brickmakers (2021). In 2023, she was awarded the Valle Inclán Prize for her translation of Joseph Zárate's Wars of the Interior.