Valerie Miles, an editor, writer, and translator, cofounded Granta en español in 2003. She established the NYRB Classics series in Spanish, curated the exhibition dedicated to Roberto Bolaño’s archival papers, and edited Bolaño’s posthumous work. She teaches translation and creative writing at Pompeu Fabra University, has written for the New York Times, the New Yorker, El País, and the Paris Review, and is the author of A Thousand Forests in One Acorn. She lives in Barcelona, Spain.