Originally from Buenos Aires, Argentina, and current resident of Los Angeles, California, Pablo Baler is a writer, art critic, and scholar. Several of his novels and short story collections appeared originally in Spanish. His debut novel in English Gilroy’s Gloryhole was awarded the 2025 New American Fiction Prize. Translations of his micro-fictions and short stories have appeared on Ninth Letter, X-Ray, and Latin American Literature Today. His translator, Slava Faybysh, was born in Ukraine and grew up in the Chicago area. Faybysh’s first full-length fiction translation was a historical thriller set in Argentina during the dictatorship years, called Rodolfo Walsh's Last Case, by Elsa Drucaroff.