Clean Houses: Manilla Press

María Agúndez (Author)
María Agúndez is a writer, advertising voice-over artist, and illustrator under the pseudonym marigundez. At the age of twenty-one, she wrote and directed the documentary 'Los Hombres También Son Vírgenes' ('Men Are Virgins Too'), which won the award for Best Documentary
Short Film at the Premio Ciutat de Palma. She has worked in advertising production and as a lyricist for TV series soundtracks and jingles.

In 2021, she published her debut novel, Piscinas Que No Cubren (Editorial Dieciséis) and contributed to the Ombligo issue of the 'Esto Es Un Cuerpo' collection with her piece 'Una Pequeña Cueva Con Toldo', created in collaboration with photographer Laura F. Izuzquiza. Clean Houses (Casas Limpias, Temas de Hoy, 2025) is her second novel.

Beth Hickling-Moore (Translator)
Beth Hickling-Moore is a translator from Portuguese, Spanish, and Italian into English. Her work has appeared in The Stinging Fly, Wasafiri, and Modern Poetry in Translation, among other journals.
Beth was the recipient of the 2025 PEN Grant for the English Translation of Italian Literature, and her work has received support from English PEN and the Fondation Jan Michalski. She has translated authors including Paulina Chiziane, Aline Bei, Lília Momplé, Rosario Villajos, and Ariel Florencia Richards.