Daisy Zamora: a Nicaraguan poet, essayist, translator, and editor, she is the author of numerous poetry books in Spanish, and several translated collections in the United States and England. She also edited the first comprehensive anthology of Nicaraguan women poets published in Latin America. Her essays, articles, and translations have been widely published, and her poetry appears in anthologies in more than thirty languages, including the Oxford Book of Latin American Poetry. Her latest poetry collections are, La violenta espuma, published in 2017 by Visor Libros (Spain), and Cerrada luz, published by Editorial Summa (Peru). Her awards include the Mariano Fiallos Gil National Poetry Prize of Nicaragua and a California Arts Council Fellowship. She has given poetry readings and lectures throughout the world, including many venues in the U.S. She was recently featured in director Jenny Murray’s award winning documentary ¡Las Sandinistas!, and was a featured poet in Bill Moyer’s PBS series The Language of Life. She teaches Latin American and Latino literature at San Francisco State University, and is married to U.S. writer George Evans.

A.D. Winans: born in 1936, in San Francisco, California, is an American poet, essayist, short story writer, and publisher. In 1962, he graduated from San Francisco State College. He was the founder of Second Coming Press, a small press based in San Francisco that published books, poetry broadsides, a magazine, and anthologies. He became friends with Charles Bukowski, whose work he published. Other writers he published included Jack Micheline, Bob Kaufman, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsberg, Philip Levine, Josephine Miles, David Meltzer, Charles Plymell. etc. In 2002, he published his memoir, Holy Grail: Charles Bukowski & The Second Coming Revolution. He has written 63 books of poetry, and two books of prose.

Cammy Thomas: her newest poetry collection, Tremors, came out in fall, 2021. Her first book, Cathedral of Wish, received the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America. A fellowship from the Ragdale Foundation helped her complete her second, Inscriptions. All are published by Four Way Books. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals, and in the anthologies Poems in the Aftermath (2017), and Echoes From Walden (2021).

Francisco Muñoz Soler: is a spanish poet with extensive work published in Spain, Mexico, United States, Italy, Portugal, Sweden, India, Turkey, Perú, El Salvador, Venezuela and Honduras. It has been translated into English, French, Portuguese, Swedish, Russian, Italian, Turkish, Arabic, Bulgarian, Greek, Romanian, Macedonian, Uzbek, Assamese, and Bengali. His work is also included in anthologies and in more than a hundred literary magazines. He is the organizer of the Plenilunio Poetic Cycle of Malaga.