Daniel Alarcón is the author of the National Book Award finalist story collection The King Is Always Above the People, the novel At Night We Walk in Circles, which was a finalist for the 2014 PEN-Faulkner Award, as well as the story collection War by Candlelight and the novel Lost City Radio. His writing has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Granta, n+1, and Harpers, and in 2010, he was named one of the New Yorker's "20 under 40." He is Executive Producer of Radio Ambulante, and teaches at the Columbia University School of Journalism in New York.
Sheila Alvarado is an artist, illustrator, and author. She lives in Lima, Peru.