IV N DE LA NUEZ is a Cuban essayist, critic, and art curator. His books include Posmo (Consonni, 2023); Cubanthropy (Seven Stories, 2023), which was his English-language debut; and Iconofagias. Un diccionario del siglo XXI (Debate, 2024). De la Nuez has curated many exhibitions in Barcelona and has served as the head of the Cultural Activities Department of the Centre de Cultura Contempor nia de Barcelona and as the director of exhibitions at La Virreina Centre de la Imatge. For his excellence in contemporary art curation and commentary, he has been awarded the Espais d'Art Prize (2006), the Premis Ciutat de Barcelona Honorable Mention (2007), and a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship in the Humanities (1995). ELLEN JONES is a literary translator from Spanish into English, a writer, and an editor. Her recent translations include This Mouth is Mine by Yasnaya Elena A. Gil (Charco Press, 2024), The Remains by Margo Glantz (Charco Press, 2023), The Forgery by Ave Barrera (Charco Press, 2022, co-translated with Robin Myers), and Nancy by Bruno Lloret (Two Lines Press, 2021). Her monograph, Literature in Motion- Translating Multilingualism Across the Americas, is published by Columbia University Press (2022).
""Iván de la Nuez is the first writer who has the audacity to affirm that events, having first occurred as tragedy and then as farce, now occur as aesthetics."" —Franco ""Bifo"" Berardi, author of The Soul at Work