A writer of Uruguayan origins, Carolina De Robertis is the author of five novels, including The President and the Frog, a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award; and Cantoras, winner of a Stonewall Book Award, finalist for a Lambda Literary Award, and a New York Times Editors’ Choice. Their books have been translated into eighteen languages. They are also an award-winning translator of Latin American literature, and editor of the anthology Radical Hope: Letters of Love and Dissent in Dangerous Times. De Robertis lives in Oakland, California, and is an associate professor at San Francisco State University.