K. Luy de Aliaga was born in Lima in 1979. She has published two collections of poetry and her short fiction has appeared in Peruvian and Latin American anthologies.
Compórtense como señoritas was published by Narrar in 2019 and nominated for novel of the year by Peru’s leading newspaper,
El Comercio. In 2021, the Chilean publisher Cocorocoq released an illustrated edition of the novella. K. lives with her dog, Pika, in Buenos Aires.
Follow her on Instagram @luydealiaga
Translated from Spanish by Anna Vilner