Margarita Garcia Robayo (Cartagena, Colombia, 1980) is the author of three novels, a book of autobiographical essays and several collections of short stories, including Cosas peores (Worse Things), which won the Casa de las Americas Prize in 2014. Her work has appeared in several anthologies such as Region: cuento politico latinoamericano (Political Latin American Short Stories, 2011) and Childless Parents (2014). In 2013, she was awarded a Literary Creation Grant from the Han Nefkens Foundation and the Pompeu Fabra University. Her books have been published in Latin America as well as in Spain, and have been translated into French, Portuguese, Italian, Hebrew and Chinese. Fish Soup is her first book to appear in English.
Charlotte Coombe is a British literary translator, working from French and Spanish. Her translation of Abnousse Shalmani's Khomeini, Sade and Me (2016) won a PEN Translates award in 2015. She has translated novels by Anna Soler-Pont and Asha Miro, Marc de Gouvenain, as well as some non-fiction works, and short stories and poetry by Edgardo Nunez Caballero, Rosa Maria Roffiel and Santiago Roncagliolo for the online publication Palabras Errantes. She is the translator of Eduardo Berti's novel The Imagined Land (2018). This is her second title for Charco Press, after Ricardo Romero's The President's Room (2017).