is the founding editor of IKON magazine. She has had twelve plays produced off–off–Broadway and published four collections of poetry.  The Color of the Heart: Writing from Struggle & Change (1959–1990) an anthology of poems and essays, and America’s Child: A Woman’s Journey Through the Radical Sixties, a memoir, were published by Curbstone Press.

born in Masatepe, Nicaragua in 1942, Ramírez was Vice President of Nicaragua during the Sandinista regime and later a member of Parliament, until he was ousted in the late 1990s.  Author of fourteen books of fiction, the following are available in English: Stories; To Bury Our Fathers; Hatful of Tigers: Reflections on Art, Culture and Politics; Margarita, How Beautiful the Sea; and A Thousand Deaths Plus One.

is the author of the novel, The Tin Angel (Wm. Morrow, 1983) and the memoir, My Brother’s Madness (Curbstone, 2007).  His seventh book of poems, Last Call at the Tin Palace is just out from Marsh Hawk Press.  He is grateful to have had the guiding touch of Hardie St. Martin and David Unger in translating Nicanor Parra and Roque Dalton.