Mag­dalé­na Plat­zová is the author of sev­er­al books, includ­ing three nov­els pub­lished in Eng­lish: Aaron’s Leap, a Lidové Noviny Book of the Year Award final­ist, The Attempt, longlist­ed for the Dublin Lit­er­ary Award and a Czech Book Award final­ist, and Life After Kaf­ka, a Mag­ne­sia Lit­era award final­ist. Her fic­tion has also appeared in A Pub­lic Space and Words With­out Bor­ders. Plat­zová grew up in the Czech Repub­lic; stud­ied in Wash­ing­ton, DC, and Eng­land; received her MA in Phi­los­o­phy at Charles Uni­ver­si­ty in Prague; and has taught at New York Uni­ver­si­ty’s Gal­latin School. She is now based in Lyon, France.