Emiliano Monge (Mexico, 1978) has published the books of short stories Arrastrar esa sombra (2008, shortlisted for the Antonin Artaud Prize) and La superficie más honda (2017); the novels El cielo árido (2012, winner of the XXVIII Jaen Novel Prize and of the Otras Voces, Otros Ámbitos Prize), Las tierras arrasadas (2015, winner of the Elena Poniatowska Iberoamerican Novel Prize and an English PEN Award), No contar todo (2018, Fine Arts Prize for Narrative to a Published Work), Tejer la oscuridad (2020), and Justo antes del final (2022). His works have been translated into several languages and recognized by the Guadalajara International Book Fair, the Hay Festival, the British Council, the Bogotá International Book Fair, the PEN Fundation and the Borchard Foundation Center on Literary Arts. Currently, he is a Borchard Foundation scholarship recipient, member of the Mexican SNCA and contributor to the newspaper El País.