Winner of the Mexico National Novel Prize, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize, and IMPACT Prize

Joaquín Buitrago, a photographer in the Castaneda Insane Asylum, believes a patient is a prostitute he knew years earlier. His obsession in confirming Matilde's identity leads him to explore the clinics records, and her tragic history. Joaquín and Matilda begin to tell each other fragmented stories about a past they almost shared, and a future in which they do not believe. Set in 1920s Mexico, this novel is at once an overview of one of the most turbulent times in Mexican history, a love story, and a meditation on the ways in which medical and popular language define insanity. No One Will See Me Cry is a lyrical and startling visitation with the so-called losers of an era as they try to plumb the meaning of their lives. 

Cristina Rivera-Garza is a Mexican author and professor best known for her fictional work. Her collection of short stories, La guerra no importa (The War Doesn't Matter) won the National Prize in Mexico in 1987. Her first novel, Desconocer (Forgetting) was a finalist for the Juan Rulfo Prize in 1994. A former professor at San Diego State University, Rivera-Garza is a Distinguished Professor in Hispanic Studies at the University of Houston. She is also the founder and director of the school's Creative Writing Program, the first Ph.D. program in Creative Writing in Spanish in the U.S. 

Andrew Hurley is an English translator of Spanish literature, primarily known for his translations of the work of Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges. He has published over 30 book-length translations.