The Forgery

About Ave Barrera

Ave Barrera (Guadalajara Mexico 1980) holds a Bachelor in Hispanic Literature from the University of Guadalajara and for several years she worked as an editor in Oaxaca. Ave has been awarded fellowships from the Fundación Carolina for a training course on publishing at the Complutense University of Madrid and the Young Creators Grant for Novel (2010 and 2014) from the Mexican National Fund for Culture and the Arts (FONCA). Ave has worked as copywriter for e-media and once as a ghostwriter. She also writes short stories and just published the illustrated children book Una noche en el laberinto (A Night in a Labyrinth Edebé 2014). She was recipient of the Sergio Galindo Award from the Veracruz University with her first novel Puertas demasiado pequeñas (The Forgery). She currently lives in Mexico City and is writing a new novel:Tratado de la vida marina (A Treatise of Marine Life) with the support of FONCA. Her latest novel was published in 2019 in Mexico and Spain under the title Restauración (Restoration).Ellen Jones is a writer editor and literary translator from Spanish. Her recent and forthcoming translations include The Remains by Margo Glantz (shortlisted for the Warwick Prize of Women in Translation) Cubanthropy by Iván de la Nuez The Forgery by Ave Barrera (co-translated with Robin Myers) and Nancy by Bruno Lloret. Her monograph Literature in Motion: Translating Multilingualism Across the Americas is published by Columbia University Press (2022).Robin Myers is a New York-born poet and translator. Her translations have appeared or are forthcoming from the_Kenyon Review_ the_Harvard Review_  Two Lines  The Offing Journal  Asymptote the Los Angeles Review of Books  and Inventory . In 2009 she was named a fellow of the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA); in 2014 she was awarded a residency at the Banff Literary Translation Centre (BILTC); and in 2017 and she was selected to participate in the feminist translation colloquium A-Fest. Recent book-length translations include Lyric Poetry Is Dead by Ezequiel Zaidenwerg Animals at the End of the World by Gloria Susana Esquivel In Vitro by Isabel Zapata and Bariloche by Andrés Neuman.