Moni­ka Zgus­tová is an award-win­ning author whose works have been pub­lished in more than ten lan­guages. She was born in Prague and stud­ied com­par­a­tive lit­er­a­ture in the Unit­ed States (Uni­ver­si­ty of Illi­nois and Uni­ver­si­ty of Chica­go). She then moved to Barcelona, where she writes for El País, The Nation, and Coun­ter­Punch, among oth­ers. As a trans­la­tor of Czech and Russ­ian lit­er­a­ture into Span­ish and Cata­lan — includ­ing the writ­ing of Hav­el, Kun­dera, Hra­bal, Hašek, Dos­toyevsky, Akhma­to­va, Tsve­tae­va, and Babel — Zgus­to­va is cred­it­ed with bring­ing major twen­ti­eth-cen­tu­ry writ­ers to Spain. Her book Dressed for a Dance in the Snow: Women’s Voic­es from the Gulag (Oth­er Press, 2020) was a World Lit­er­a­ture Today Notable Trans­la­tion of the Year.