Caro De Robertis

A writer of Uruguayan origins, Caro De Robertis is the author of six novels, including the forthcoming The Palace of Eros; The President and the Frog, a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award; and Cantoras, winner of a Stonewall Book Award. Their books have been translated into seventeen languages and have received numerous other honors, including a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and the John Dos Passos Prize. De Robertis is also an award-winning translator of Latin American literature, and a professor at San Francisco State University. They live in Oakland, California with their two children.