GUADALUPE NETTEL (Mexico City, 1973) is a regular contributor to both Spanish- and French-language magazines. In 2006, she was voted one of the thirty-nine most important Latin American writers under the age of thirty-nine at the Bogota Hay Festival. She is the author of Juegos de artifice (False Games), Les jours fossils (Fossil Days), Pe talos y otras historias inco modas (Petals and other Awkward Stories), El hue sped (The Host), and El cuerpo en que naci (The Body Where I Was Born), a novel forthcoming in Spring 2015 from Seven Stories Press. She is the recipient of the Radio France International Award, the Premio Herralde, third place, the Prix Antonin-Artaud, and the Gilberto Owen Short Story Prize, and her work has been translated into nine languages. She lives in Mexico City. i>From the Hardcover edition.