Mylene Fernández Pintado is the author of six books of short stories and two novels. Her novel A Corner of the World was published in English translation by City Lights Books, in Italian translation by Marcos y Marcos, and in the original Spanish by La Moderna in Spain. “Hard Water,” in this issue, is part of the story collection Agua dura (Ediciones Unión, Havana, 2017). She has twice won Cuba’s Premio de la Crítica, once for a novel and once for a story collection. (updated 10/2023)