Juan Eslava Galan was born in Andalusia, Spain, in 1948. He is the author of more than fifty books, and winner of the Planeta Award for "En Busca del Unicornia," He lives in Seville.
Lisa Dillman is the translator of over a half dozen book-length works of literature, history, and pedagogy. She is best known for her translation of Gioconda Belli's "The Scroll of Seduction." Dillman is a professor in the department of Spanish and Portuguese at Emory University in Atlanta. She lives in Decatur, Georgia.