Author, translator, and critic Cristina Rivera Garza is the author of six novels, three of which have been translated into English: No One Will See Me Cry, The Iliac Crest, and The Taiga Syndrome. She is the founder of the PhD program in creative writing in Spanish and distinguished professor at the University of Houston.
Robin Myers is a Mexico City-based translator and poet.

Acknowledgments
Introduction
My Journey through Transkrit: Planetary, Sporadic, Exphonic
Disappropriation: Writing with and for the Dead
Uses of the Archive: From the Historical Novel to Documentary Writing
Undead Authors: The Autobiographical and David Markson (1927-2010)
Brief Missives from Pompeii: The Production of Present
Writing against Violence: Make No Mistake: This Letter Is All Business
On Alert: Writing in Spanish in the United States Today
Let's Be Stubborn
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