was honored as 2006 Woman Writer of the Year by the National Association of Artists in her native Nicaragua, was a combatant for the Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional (Sandinista National Liberation Front) during the Sandinista Revolution, was the voice and program director of clandestine Radio Sandino during the final 1979 Sandinista offensive, and then became vice minister of culture for the new government.  Her most recent poetry collections are Tierra de Nadie, Tierra de Todos (Casa de Poesía, Costa Rica), and Fiel al corazón (Anama Ediciones, Nicaragua).  Collections of her work in English include The Violent Foam (Curbstone Press), and Riverbed of Memory (City Lights Books).

is an artist and poet who lives in San Francisco. Walking Theory ( Junction Press, 2007) is his most recent book.  Previous titles include Walking ( Junction Press), A Walk Toward Spicer (Cherry On the Top Press), an early abridged version of Sleeping With Sappho (Faux eBooks), and Triggers (Shearsman eBooks).  Recent poems will have appeared in Vanitas, New American Writing, Volt, Crayon, 26, Masthead, Onedit, and The Hamilton Stone Review.

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.