Elvio E. Gandolfo is one of the most important cultural writers and journalists in the Southern Cone, as well as a prestigious translator (he has dealt with authors such as H. P. Lovecraft, Philip K. Dick or C. S. Lewis). He was born in San Rafael (Mendoza, Argentina) in 1947, and currently lives between Montevideo and Buenos Aires.

Dos Mujeres, first published in 1992, is one of the key books of the "fantastic" Latin American at the turn of the century. Gandolfo is also the author of, among other titles, the novels Boomerang (1993) and Ómnibus (2006), and of the story books La reina de las nieves (1982), Caminandoround (1986), Ferrocarriles argentinos (1994) and When Lidia lived wanted to die (2000). In It seems a lie (1993) he collected his essays on different writers.