The author: Angelina Muñiz-Huberman was born in Hyeres, France, of Spanish parents in1937; she has lived most of her life in Mexico City. Her novels include Morada interior (1972), Tierra adentro (1977), and La guerra del unicornio (1983). She has a collection of poetry Vilano al viento (1983), and writes regularly for the Mexican periodicals, Vuelta and Uno más uno. Another collection of short fiction will be published this year by the Fondo de Cultura Económica in Mexico City. Ms.Muñiz-Huberman is professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at the National Autonomous University of Mexico.
The translator: Lois Parkinson Zamora is professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Houston. She has written critical studies on contemporary U.S. and Latin American fiction, including Writing the Apocalypse: Historical Vision in Contemporary U.S. and Latin American Fiction (Cambridge University Press). She is currently translating selected short fiction by the Uruguayan writer, Felisberto Hernández.
The cover artist: Giulia Cardinali was born in Milan, Italy. She studied design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Milan, and then completed her doctorate in architecture at the Polytechnic University in Milan. She is currently professor of Architecture at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. She has had exhibitions of her engravings in Mexico City, New York, Venice, and Rome.
