Slash and Burn

Claudia Hernandez is the highly acclaimed author of five short story collections and two novels, the first of which was Slash and Burn, published in Spanish in 2017 and in English in 2020. Her work has appeared in various anthologies in Spain, Italy, France, Germany, Israel and the USA. She was the winner of the Anna Seghers Foundation award (2004), which acknowledges authors interested in making a more just and more humane society through their artistic production. The National Endowment for the Arts has supported the English translation of some of her books that explore the brutal impact of the El Salvadorian Civil War. Hernandez won the prestigious Juan Rulfo Prize in 1998 and was selected for Hay's Bogota39 list of important Latin American authors in 2007.Julia Sanches translates from Portuguese, Spanish, and Catalan. For And Other Stories she has translated from all three languages-from the Portuguese, Now and at the Hour of Our Death by Susana Moreira Marques, from the Catalan the forthcoming Permafrost by Eva Baltasar, and from the Spanish Slash and Burn by Claudia Hernandez, for which she won a PEN/Heim award. She has also translated works by Noemi Jaffe, Daniel Galera, and Geovani Martins, among others. She is a founding member of the Cedilla & Co. translators' collective, and currently lives in Providence, Rhode Island.