A fiction writer, poet, and video artist from Argentina, Federico Falco is the author of three short story collections, a poetry collection, and one novella. His book Lahora de los monos was chosen as one of the best Argentine books of 2010 by the magazine Revista Ñ. His stories have been widely published and anthologized, including in Granta magazine’s anthology of The Best Young Spanish-Language Novelists and in Open Letter’s 2012 book The Future is Not Ours: New Latin American Fiction. Falco is a graduate of the Spanish-language creative writing MFA program at New York University and, in 2012, he was a visiting writer with the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa. His translated stories have appeared invarious U.S.-based literary magazines including the Massachusetts Review and Kenyon Review Online.