Lawrence Schimel (New York, 1971) writes in both Spanish and English and has published over one hundred books as author and anthologist, including Fairy Tales for Writers, Camelot Fantastic, Let's Go See Papá!, and Streets of Blood: Vampire Stories from New York City. He has lived in Madrid, Spain, since 1999, where he works as a literary translator. Recent translations include the middle grade novel The Treasure of Barracuda by Llanos Campos (Little Pickle Stories) and the short SF novel Monteverde: Memoirs of a Space Linguist by Lola Robles (Aqueduct Press).