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Teresa Orbegoso (Lima, 1976) Visual artist. Poet. Cultural journalist. Social researcher. Cultural organizer. Curator. She holds a degree in Journalism from the Universidad Jaime Bausate y Mesa and a Master’s Degree in Creative Writing from the Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero. She has a diploma in Advertising Creativity and studies in Philosophy and Musical Creation. She has received scholarships from the OAS, INDES IDB and Tallberg Foundation to participate in seminars and workshops for social leaders organized in Brazil, Colombia, United States and Sweden (2001­-2006). She has published the poetry collections Yana wayra (Urbano Marginal, 2011), Mestiza (Ediciones del Dock, 2012), La mujer de la bestia (Trópico Sur, 2014), Yuyachkani (together with visual artist Zenaida Cajahuaringa, La Purita Carne, 2015), Perú (Buenos Aires Poetry, 2016), Comas (Añosluz, 2018) and Abro el miedo (Hanan Harawi Editores, 2019; Las Furias Editora, 2020). Abro el Miedo / Opening Fear, a testimonial poetry book about her experiences with cancer, was nominated for the Luces Prize from the Peruvian newspaper El Comercio, in the category “Best poetry book”. In 2022 she received a grant from the Peruvian Ministry of Culture to present her books Peru and Abro el miedo at poetry festivals in Spain. Her work has been included in anthologies of contemporary South American poetry in Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Peru. She has been director of the Casa Cultural ­Trenzando Fuerzas, and currently runs the publishing house La Primera Vértebra and hosts the program “La danza de las libélulas” for the platform La mula in Lima, Peru. As a media producer, she has created a series of diverse materials that allow for the mediation between readers and the book, among which stand out: the music composed for the book La casa sin sombra by the Argentine writer Claudio Archubi; the videopoems made for her books Yana wayra, La mujer de la bestia, Perú and Abro el miedo; the podcast “Cuerpas” for the poetry journal La primera vértebra, and a cycle of interviews to Latin American writers for the Casa Cultural ­Trenzando Fuerzas.

Vania Milla (Lima, 2005) is studying Communications at the University of Lima and intends to specialize in Journalism. She is an avid reader and enjoys spending her free time playing guitar and biking around the city. She began studying English at a young age and has a keen interest in translation as a means of bringing Spanish-­language literary production to English­-speaking readers. This is her first published translation.

Margarita Saona studied linguistics and literature at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Peru. She received a Ph.D. in Latin American literature from Columbia University in New York. She is head of the department of Hispanic and Italian Studies at the University of Illinois. She is interested in issues of gender, memory, cognition, empathy, and representation in literature and the arts. She has published numerous articles, the books on literary and cultural criticism Novelas familiares: Figuraciones de la nación en la novela latinoamericana contemporánea (Rosario, 2004) and Memory Matters in Transitional Perú (Londres, 2014); two books of short fiction, Comehoras (Lima, 2008) and Objeto perdido (Lima, 2012), and a book of poems, Corazón de hojalata/Tin Heart (Chicago, 2017). Her latest publications are Despadre: Masculinidades, travestismos y ficciones de la ley en la literatura peruana (Editorial Gafas Moradas, 2022), which deals on the representation of masculinity in Peruvian literature, and La ciudad en que no estas (Cocodrilo Ediciones, 2021) a collection of her short stories that has also been published in English as The Ghost of You (tr. Luciana Erregue, Laberinto Press, 2023.) (University of Illinois at Chicago).

Yaxkin Melchy Ramos (Mexico City, 1985) is a Mexican and Peruvian­ Quechua poet, translator, ecopoetics researcher, and artisan -activist-­editor. He is the author of Poetechnics (Cardboard House Press, 2023) and The New World, a five­-part “constellation­-book” which was written intermittently between 2007 and 2017. Currently he is a graduate student at Tsukuba University in Japan, where he is researching ecopoetic currents between Japan and Latin America. Since 2017, he has been translating contemporary Japanese poetry to Spanish, and currently he runs the artisanal press Cactus del viento, which focuses on ecological, spiritual, and transpacific poetics. He also publishes on his personal blog, Flor de Amaneceres. (Cardboard House Press).

Silvia Goldman (Montevideo, 1977), a native from Uruguay, received her PhD in Hispanic Studies from Brown University in 2011. She is currently working on the final stages of a book­length manuscript on contemporary Latin American Poetry entitled La recuperación de la palabra en la poesía latinoamericana contemporánea. She teaches all levels of Spanish language and culture. Her research and teaching interests include Hispanic poetry and poetics, creative writing, representations of madness in the Hispanic tradition, violence and repression in post­-dictatorship Southern Cone, Transatlantic Studies, and the interplay between performance, memory, and cultural identity in Latin America. Silvia is also a poet. Her academic journals and poems have been published in journals such as Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos, Rassegna Iberistica, RILCE, Inti, Maldoror: Revista de la ciudad de Montevideo, Nueva York Poetry Review, Plenamar, Conexos, TriQuarterly, and Revista de escritura y poéticas 7 de 7. She is the author of three poetry collections: Cinco movimientos del llanto (Hermes criollo, 2008), De los peces la sed (Pandora Lobo Estepario 2018), and miedo (Axiara editions 2020). (DePaul University).

Louise Castillo (Lima, Perú.) Photographer and graphic designer whose personal projects are an exploration of surrealism and human emotions. With a higher education in graphic design and a passion for photography, her work has developed a particular style that combines photography and digital experimentation. She began her career as a traditional photographer in 2017, but soon turned to editing and manipulation techniques that allow her to create new realities through images. Her creations cover a wide range of subjects that explore the boundaries of reality and the subconscious, and her works are known for their painterly aesthetic with a color palette inspired by baroque, renaissance and gothic art. She has collaborated in different artistic projects for renowned writers and independent musicians. She is currently working on the upcoming release of two projects, an e­book called “­∞ e ∞” and her first solo exhibition.