About the Author
Mariana Enriquez (Buenos Aires, 1973) has published novels—including Our Share of Night, which won the famous Premio Herralde—and the short story collections Dangers of Smoking in Bed and Things We Lost in the Fire, which sold to 20 international publishers before it was even published in Spanish and won the Premio Ciutat de Barcelona. Enriquez’s short stories have been published in The New Yorker, Freeman's, Granta, McSweeney’s, Electric Literature and Asymptote. One story is a 2020 finalist for the Shirley Jackson Award. She has also published a collection of chronicles on her travels to certain cemeteries (Alguien camina sobre tu tumba) and a profile on Silvina Ocampo (La hermana menor).