Gerardo Arana (Queretaro, 1987-2012) graduated with a degree in Modern Literature at the Autonomous University of Queretaro. He was a scholar both at the Queretano Institute of Culture and Arts in their Young Artists program in 2009, and on the Young Writers Course at the the Foundation for Mexican Literature that same year. He was the publishing director of Herring Publishers, Mexico, and the author of La máquina de hacer pájaros (Herring Publishers, 2008), Leónidas (Herring Publishers, 2009), El Whisky del Barbero Espadachín (Urano, 2010) y Bulgaria Mexicali (Herring Publishers, 2011). In 2014, his novel Meth Z was posthumously published by the Tierra Adentro Publishing Fund.