The Family

Sara Mesa is the author of eight works of fiction, including Un Amor (Selected as the ‘Best Book of 2020’ by El País, La Vanguardia, El Cultural and El Correo, and now a feature film), Scar (winner of the Ojo Critico Prize), Four by Four (a finalist for the Herralde Prize), An Invisible Fire (winner of the Premio Málaga de Novela), Among the Hedges, and La Familia. Her work has been translated into eighteen languages, and she has been widely praised for her concise, sharp writing style.

Katie Whittemore is a graduate of the University of NH (BA), Cambridge University (M.Phil), and Middlebury College (MA), and was a 2018 Bread Loaf Translators Conference participant. Her work has appeared with Two Lines, The Arkansas International, The Common Online, Gulf Coast Magazine Online, The Los Angeles Review, The Brooklyn Rail and InTranslation.