Horacio Castellanos Moya was born in 1957 in Honduras, but grew up in El Salvador.  Author of eight novels, he worked twelve years as a journalist in Mexico and has lived in Costa Rica, Canada, Guatemala, Spain and Germany, under the auspices of the Frankfurt International Book Fair.  He currently resides in the U.S. as writer-in-residence of City of Asylum/Pittsburgh.  His novels have been translated into French, German, Italian, and Portuguese.  The English translation of Senselessness will be published by New Directions in May, 2008.