Catalina Infante Author

Catalina Infante Beovic is a Chilean writer, publisher, and co-owner of Librera Catalonia in Chile. She has written three books of stories of the indigenous peoples of Chile with Sonia Montecino, anthropologist and recipient of the Chilean National Social Sciences Award. She published her first book of short stories, Todas somos una misma sombraI, in 2018, followed by her English-language debut, Ferns. Published in 2020 by World Literature Today, Ferns was nominated for a Pushcart Prize and adapted into a short film by director Paz Ramrez. Infante's short stories and poems have appeared in World Literature Today, Columbia Journal, the HarperCollins Daughters of Latin America anthology, and the Deep Vellum Best Literary Translations anthology. The Cracks We Bear is Infante Beovic's first full-length novel translated into English.

Michelle Mirabellais a Spanish-to-English literary translator. In addition to her translation of Catalina Infante's debut novel, The Cracks We Bear, her work appears in the anthologiesBest Literary Translations(Deep Vellum, 2024) andDaughters of Latin America(HarperCollins, 2023), as well as in venues such asWorld Literature Today,Latin American Literature Today, andSouthwest Review.