Guadalupe Nettel is the author of four international-award winning novels: El huésped, The Body Where I was Born, After the Winter, and Still Born; and three collections of short stories. Her work has been translated into more than ten languages and has appeared in publications such as the New York Times, Granta, The White Review, and many others. She currently lives in Mexico City where she's the director of the magazine Revista de la Universidad de México.