Kirk Anderson is an independent translator of Spanish, French, and Chinese, based in Miami Beach. He has published translations of over 50 writers from more than 20 different countries, including Pedro Almodóvar's Patty Diphusa and Other Writings, essays in For Rushdie: Essays by Arab and Muslim Writers in Defense of Free Speech, as well as works by Juan Miguel Asensi, Fernando Durán Ayanegui, José Luis Garci, José Luis Sampedro, Abdellatif Laabi, Su Tong, and Zhong Ling, among others.