María Sonia Cristoff was born in Trelew, Patagonia, Argentina, in 1965. She is the author of Include Me Out (2014, Ricardo Rojas Prize) and Mal de época (2017, shortlisted for the Médicis Prize), among others. Cristoff teaches in the Creative Writing Master’s Program at the Universidad Nacional Tres de Febrero and has been a writer-in-residence in Iowa and Leipzig. Her books have been translated into English, French, German, Italian, and Swedish. She walks compulsively, and currently lives in Buenos Aires.
