lived in exile in Mexico from 1976 until the fall of the dictatorship, when he returned to Argentina.  In 1976 he won the esteemed “Casa de las Américas” in Cuba and later the “National Award for Poetry” in Mexico.  His poetry includes: The scarecrow suicide (1974), news of any woman (1976), Password (1976), Poems on the size of an orange (1979), the eyes of the burned bird (1980), Deaf and Dumb (1990), Zona de Tolerancia (1998), Beasts in a hotel in passing (2001), and Royal Palm (2008).

is one of Nicaragua’s most highly regarded writers.  Her first novel, La Mujer Habitada, sold over 500,000 copies in Germany. The Inhabited Woman was brought out in English as a paperback by Warner Books in 1996.  Recently, From Eves Rib, was published by Curbstone Press.

most recent book is Keep Your Head Down: Vietnam, The Sixties, and a Journey of Self–Discovery.  His book of poems, The Moon Reflected Fire, won the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and Blues For Unemployed Secret Police, a grant from the Academy of American Poets.  He is at work on a novel about human trafficking.

was born in Estelí, Nicaragua in 1924 and grew up in El Salvador.  She has published over forty books, ten of which have been translated into English, including Ashes of Izalco, Luisa in Realityland, Family Album, Fugues, Thresholds, and Sorrow from Curbstone Press.  Her book of poetry, Sobrevivo, received a Casa de las Américas Prize and she is a recipient of the Neustadt Literature Prize in 2006.  She appeared in the Bill Moyers Language of Life on PBS in 1995.