Tomás Downey is a translator, screenwriter, and the author of Acá el tiempo es otra cosa, El lugar donde mueren los pájaros, Flores que se abren de noche, and López López. His stories have been translated into Italian and English, and have appeared in magazines such as The Offing and The Common, and in the anthology Through the Night Like a Snake: Latin American Horror Stories. He was born in 1984 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he lives.