Mónica Bustos (Asunción, 1984) is the author of five novels: León muerto (Cría Cuervos, 2004), Chico Bizarro y las moscas (Alfaguara, 2010), which was awarded the inaugural Augusto Roa Bastos Prize, El club de los que nunca duermen (Alfaguara, 2012), Novela B (2013) originally published in Mexico and reissued in 2020 in Spain by Obscura Editorial, and Humberstone (El Lector, 2016) reissued in 2022 by Pro Latina Press.