About the Author

Roberto Ransom is an award-winning Mexican writer whose published work includes novels and collections of short stories, poetry, and essays, as well as children's literature. His novel A Tale of Two Lions has also been translated into English. He is professor at the Autonomous University of Chihuahua. Daniel Shapiro is a translator of Latin American literature and the author of three collections of poetry, including Woman at the Cusp of Twilight. He is a distinguished lecturer at the City College of New York, CUNY, and the editor of Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas.

Reviews

"In one of the stories in this surreal collection, an artist is unable to paint some figures in his composition because he's waiting for the right color to inspire him. The painting's patron doesn't understand the delay: Shouldn't it be easy to paint some figures? Thus Roberto Ransom suggests with clarity and elegance that form is the subject of art. Daniel Shapiro's translation perfectly captures all the nuances of these strange and seductive stories."
--Edmundo Paz Soldán, professor of Spanish literature at Cornell University

"Roberto Ransom's collection of short stories, Missing Persons, Animals, and Artists, is a trip to fear, to the uncanny, to the limit where we give up our defenses and just relate."--Álvaro Enrigue, award winning novelist and short story writer

" An almost understated calm leads readers into the ten stories in Missing Persons, Animals, and Artists--some remain placid, and others reveal an unsettling and often dark depth. . . . A fine, and finely wrought, collection."-- "Complete Review"