Valerie Miles, American editor, writer, and translator, has resided in Spain for decades. She co-founded Granta en español in 2003, when she was in charge of Emecé publishing house, and has directed the magazine since then. She holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from Pompeu Fabra University and is literary advisor for Escribir el Prado, where she also edits its narrative collection. Her editorial work with Roberto Bolaño's manuscripts led to their posthumous publication and culminated in the curation of Archivo Bolaño, 1977–2003, the first exhibition of his private papers, together with the CCCB team in Barcelona. She has translated Juan Eduardo Cirlot, Enrique Vila-Matas, and Rafael Chirbes, and together with J. M. Coetzee, the poetry of Mariano Melgar. She has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Rockefeller Foundation, the Southwest Review essay prize, the PEN Translates award, and was a finalist for the Dublin Literary Award. Her bibliography includes Mil bosques en una bellota, 26 issues of Granta en español, and two of the British edition. She serves on the editorial board of Yale University Press and has collaborated in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The New York Times, La Vanguardia, and El País, among other media.
