has published sixteen books as a poet, editor, and translator, including The Republic of Poetry (a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize), Alabanza: New and Selected Poems, A Mayan Astronomer in Hell’s Kitchen, and Imagine the Angels of Bread (winner of an American Book Award), all from W.W. Norton.  He has recently released poetry collections in Spain, Puerto Rico, Chile, and England.  The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, he teaches in the English Department at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

was born in 1925 in Granada, Nicaragua.  He is a Revolutionary activist, disciple of Thomas Merton, Roman Catholic priest, ambassador for the Sandinistas, Minister of Culture in post–Somoza Nicaragua, and co–founder of the international cultural center: House of Three Worlds.  On his eightieth birthday, he received the nation’s highest honor, the Order of Rubén Darío.  He has been nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.  This year, New Directions published his Pluriverse: New and Selected Poems, representing six decades of his work.

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.