Laura McGloughlin has been a freelance translator from Spanish and Catalan since completing a Masters in Literary Translation at the University of East Anglia. She has translated novels, plays, short stories, poetry and children’s literature by authors including Lluïsa Cunillé, Maria Barbal, Flavia Company, Maite Carranza, Joan Brossa, and Antonio Hill Gumbao. She is a reader for various UK publishing houses and an occasional assessor for English Pen’s Pen Translates programme, as well as a commercial manager for Waterstones Booksellers.