Annie McDermott’s translations from Spanish and Portuguese include The Rooftop by Fernanda Trías, Empty Words and The Luminous Novel by Mario Levrero, Dead Girls and Brickmakers by Selva Almada, and City of Ulysses by Teolinda Gersão (co-translated with Jethro Soutar). She has previously lived in Mexico and Brazil and is now based in Hastings, in the UK.