All That Dies In April

Mariana Travacio is the critically acclaimed, award-winning author of the novels All That Dies in April and Como si existiese el perdón (Such a Thing as Forgiveness), as well as three short story collections. A former forensic psychologist and psychology professor, she was born in Rosario, grew up in São Paulo, and lives in Buenos Aires. Her stories have appeared in English in Latin American Literature Today and Two Lines Journal. Her work has been translated into over six languages. All That Dies in April was a finalist for the Tigre Juan Award 2022 and is her first book to be published in English.Samantha Schnee is the founding editor of Words Without Borders, which has published 4,400 writers from 139 countries since the online magazine launched in 2003. As a translator from Spanish, she is the recipient of a 2023 National Endowment of the Arts Literature Fellowship to translate eminent Mexican author Carmen Boullosa's novel El complot de los románticos (Dante Hits the Road) as well as a 2024 Berlin Prize from the American Academy in Berlin to translate Irati Elorrieta's award-winning debut novel, Luces de invierno (Winter Lights), which won the 2025 Sundial Translation Award and is forthcoming in 2027. Will Morningstar is a book editor and translator whose work is featured in Deep Vellum's Best Literary Translations 2025 anthology and has appeared in journals such as the New England Review, ANMLY, Two Lines, Latin American Literature Today, Strange Horizons, and the Massachusetts Review, as well as in museums and cultural institutions throughout Spain. He is the publisher of Boston-based Diptych Press, a new initiative to foster dialogue about literature from around the world.