Catalina Infante Beovic is a Chilean writer, publisher, and co-owner of Librería Catalonia in Chile. She has written three books of stories of the indigenous peoples of Chile with Sonia Montecino, anthropologist and recipient of the Chilean National Social Sciences Award. She published her first book of short stories, Todas somos una misma sombraI, in 2018, followed by her English-language debut, Ferns. Published in 2020 by World Literature Today, Ferns was nominated for a Pushcart Prize and adapted into a short film by director Paz Ramírez. Infante's short stories and poems have appeared in World Literature Today, Columbia Journal, the HarperCollins Daughters of Latin America anthology, and the Deep Vellum Best Literary Translations anthology. The Cracks We Bear is Infante Beovic's first full-length novel translated into English.

Michelle Mirabella is a Spanish-to-English
literary translator. In addition to her translation of Catalina Infante's debut
novel, The Cracks We Bear, her work appears in the anthologies Best
Literary Translations (Deep Vellum, 2024) and Daughters of
Latin America (HarperCollins, 2023), as well as in venues such
as World Literature Today, Latin American Literature Today,
and Southwest Review. A former ALTA Travel Fellow, Michelle holds
an M.A. in Translation and Interpretation from the Middlebury Institute and is
an alumna of the Banff International Literary Translation Centre and the Bread
Loaf Translators' Conference. Find more of her work at www.michellemirabella.com.