Fernanda Trías is a Uruguayan writer, translator and lecturer in literary creation. She has published the novels Cuaderno para un solo ojo, La azotea, La ciudad invencible and Mugre rosa, and the short story collection No soñarás flores. Her work has been translated into fifteen languages, including Danish, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Persian and Swedish. Pink Slime was chosen by the New York Times in Spanish as one of the ten best books of the year in 2020. She was awarded the National Uruguayan Literature Prize, the Critics’ Choice Award Bartolome Hidalgo, and Mexico’s International Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize, as well as two British PEN Translates Awards, among others. She lives in Bogotá, Colombia, where she teaches at the creative writing MFA program of Instituto Caro y Cuervo.