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Lucía Lijtmaer (Buenos Aires, 1977) grew up in Barcelona. She is a writer and cultural critic. She has published the chronicles Quiero los secretos del Pentágono (I Want the Pentagon's Secrets) (2015), Casi nada que ponerte (Hardly Anything to Wear) (2016) and the essays Yo también soy una chica lista (I'm a Smart Girl, Too) (2017), Cultura en Tensión (Culture in Tension) (2016) and Ofendiditos, la criminalización de la protesta (Offended: the Criminalization of Protest) (2019). She regularly writes for El País , El Periódico de Catalunya, and collaborates with RAC1. She's the curator of the festival of guerrilla and feminist culture 'Princesses and DarthVaders', and together with Isa Calderón, she codirects the cultural podcast 'Deforme Semanal' on Radio Primavera Sound, winner of the 2021 Ondas Award for Best Podcast and of the 2022 Ondas Globales Prize for the Podcast.

Maureen Shaughnessy is a writer and translator from Spanish. Her work has appeared in The Paris Review , Brick , AGNI and Asymptote . In 2023, her translation of Belén López Peiró’s Why Did You Come Back Every Summer received an English PEN Translates Award. She lives in Bariloche, Argentina.