Pola Oloixarac was born in Buenos Aires in 1977. Her debut novel Savage Theories was a breakout bestseller in Argentina, and in 2010 Granta recognized her as one of the best young contemporary novelists in Spanish. Oloixarac is a regular contributor to The New York Times, The Telegraph, and Rolling Stone, and her fiction has appeared in Granta, n+1, The White Review, and in an issue of Freeman’s dedicated to The Future of New Writing. She has received scholarships from the Fondo Nacional de las Artes (Argentina), the International Writers Program in Iowa, and other institutions. She currently lives in San Francisco, where she is completing a PhD at Stanford University.