Guadalupe Nettel ©Germán Nájera
Mexican writer Guadalupe Nettel (b. 1973) is the author of award-winning novels and collections of short stories translated into more than twenty languages. Her work has been adapted for theater and film. Still Born, her most recent novel, was a finalist for the International Booker Prize.
In 2008 she received a PhD in literature from the EHESS in Paris. She’s been the editor of cultural and literary magazines such as Número Cero and Revista de la Universidad de México.
In April 2025 Bloomsbury will publish The Accidentals, her new collection of short stories translated by Rosalind Harvey, simultaneously in the United Kingdom and the United States. She lives in Paris as a writer in residence at Columbia University’s Center for Ideas and Imagination.
Rosalind Harvey is a literary translator and writer from Bristol, now based in Coventry. She has worked on books by many prominent Spanish-language writers, including Juan Pablo Villalobos, Elvira Navarro, and Enrique Vila-Matas, and her translation of Guadalupe Nettel’s Still Born was shortlisted for the 2023 International Booker Prize. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, an Arts Foundation Fellow, and a founding member of the Emerging Translators Network. She teaches for the MA in Literary Translation program at the University of Warwick and is currently writing a creative nonfiction book that examines literary translation through a psychotherapeutic lens.
Humberto Medina (b. 1974, Caracas) is a literary critic, researcher, and sociologist. He holds an MA in Latin American literature from Simón Bolívar University (Venezuela) and a PhD in literature from the University of Montreal (Canada). He has published numerous articles on twentieth-century Latin American literature in academic journals from Venezuela, Peru, Colombia, and Canada. His research focuses on Latin American avant-garde movements and novels, with his doctoral dissertation titled Echoes in the Writing: Technology and Experience in the Latin American Avant-Garde Novel. At the University of Oklahoma, Humberto teaches courses in Spanish, the twentieth-century Latin American novel, and other topics in the Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics. He recently published his first short-story collection, Los Límites del Movimiento, in Colombia.
A Mexican diplomat with a twenty-six-year career, Edurne Pineda is Head Consul of the new Consulate of Mexico in Oklahoma City. She has been appointed to the Consulates General of Mexico in Chicago, Atlanta, and Dallas, where she coordinated every area of the consular spectrum and was deputy consul general for ten years. In the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Mexico, Consul Pineda has worked in roles as director of economic and community affairs and deputy general director for consular services. Consul Pineda officially began her post with the Consulate of Mexico in Oklahoma City on December 1, 2022
