Jorge Consiglio was born in Buenos Aires in 1962. He has published several novels including: El bien (The Good, 2003; Award for Emerging Writers, Opera Prima, Spain), Gramatica de la sombra (Grammar of the Shadows, 2007; Third Municipal Prize for Novels), Pequenas intenciones (Small Intentions, 2011; Second National Prize for Novels, First Municipal Prize for Novels, re-published in 2019), Hospital Posadas (2015), Tres Monedas (2018), published by Charco as Fate (2020) and Sodio (2021). They have all been awarded prizes in Argentina and in Spain. He has also published three collections of short stories, including Villa del Parque (2016), published by Charco Press as Southerly (2018), five books of poems and a book of essays.

Cherilyn Elston is an academic and translator, who specialises in Latin American history and literature. She holds a doctorate in Latin American Studies from the University of Cambridge and is the author of Women's Writing in Colombia: An Alternative History (2016). As the managing editor of Palabras Errantes, she has edited and published more than 150 translations of Latin American writers. She is a Lecturer in Spanish and Latin American Studies at the University of Reading.

Originally from Buenos Aires and now based in Edinburgh, Carolina Orloff is an experienced translator and researcher in Latin American literature. In 2016, after obtaining her PhD and working in the academic sector for several years, Carolina co-founded Charco Press where she acts as publishing director and main editor. She is also the co-translator of Ariana Harwicz's Die, My Love.