Luis Sagasti (Bahia Blanca, Argentina, 1963) is a writer, lecturer and art critic. From 1995 to 2003 he was the curator in charge of education and culture at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Bahia Blanca, where he authored several exhibition catalogues. In addition to Fireflies, he has published four novels: El Canon de Leipzig (Leipzig's Canon, 1999), Los mares de la Luna (Seas of the Moon, 2006), Maelstrom (2015) and Una ofrenda musical (A Musical Offering, 2017, forthcoming from Charco Press, 2020). He also has a book of essays, Perdidos en el espacio (Lost in Space, 2011). Fireflies is his first book to be published in English.
Fionn Petch was born in Scotland, spent a decade in Mexico City and is now based in Berlin. He translates from Spanish and French, and specialises in books and exhibition catalogues on art and architecture. He has curated multidisciplinary exhibitions and worked for numerous film and literature festivals. He holds a doctorate in philosophy from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Fionn has also translated The Distance Between Us by Renato Cisneros and Luis Sagasti's A Musical Offering for Charco Press. In 2018 he was shortlisted for the TA First Translation Prize for Fireflies.