Daniella Sánchez Russo (Barranquilla, 1987) is a writer and an academic with a doctorate in Hispanic Studies from the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of her debut novel Wakeful Hours . She was a court reporter for El Espectador , content editor for the magazine Fucsia and currently directs the Language Institute of the University of the North in Barranquilla, Colombia.

Frances Riddle has translated numerous Spanish-language authors, including Isabel Allende, Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Claudia Piñeiro, and Leila Guerriero. Her work has been shortlisted for the International Booker Prize and the Queen Sofía Spanish Institute Translation Prize. Originally from Houston, Texas, she lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina.