Susan Sherman is the founding editor of IKON magazine and has had thirteen plays produced off-off Broadway.  She has published seven collections of poetry; a memoir, America’s Child: A Woman’s Journey through the Radical Sixties; a collection of short fiction, Nirvana on Ninth Street; and new and selected poems, The Light that Puts an End to Dreams, (Wings Press, 2012).

Carlos Martínez Rivas (1924—1998), is celebrated throughout the Hispanic world, but still almost unknown to English readers, he was a Nicaraguan poet who raised a “solitary insurrection” against his society’s oppressive orthodoxies and hypocrisies.  Threnody For Joaquin Pasos, translated by Roger Hickin, is the first collection of his poems in English.

Joe Richey  is a poet, translator, and musician living in Boulder, Colorado.  He is the publisher of the Boulder micropress Selva Editions, and the bilingual magazine The Underground Forest and is the author of Riding the Big Earth.

Margaret Randall  is a poet, essayist, oral historian, translator, photographer, and social activist.  She lived in Latin America for 23 years (in Mexico, Cuba, and Nicaragua).  From 1962 to 1969 she and Mexican poet Sergio Mondragon co-edited El Corno Emplumado / The Plumed Horn, a bi-lingual literary quarterly that published some of the best new work of the 1960s.  A prolific writer, a recent collection of poems, About Little Charlie Lindbergh, appeared from Wings (Summer 2014).  Haydee Santamaria, Cuban Revolutionary: She Led by Transgression, is recently out from Duke University (August 2015.)  Her most recent collection of poems ( June 2016) is She Becomes Time.  She lives in New Mexico with her partner (now wife) of almost 30 years, the painter Barbara Byers, and travels extensively to read, lecture, and teach.