Camilla Grudova lives in Edinburgh, Scotland. She holds a degree in art history and German from McGill University, Montreal. Her fiction has appeared in the White Review and Granta. Grudova originally posted stories on her Tumblr blog before being spotted by an editor from The White Review. Her story, "Waxy" (Granta 136), was nominated for a British Fantasy Award for short fiction and won the Shirley Jackson Award for best novelette.

Fernanda García Lao es una escritora, dramaturga y poeta argentina. Hija del periodista Ambrosio García Lao. Se exilió, junto a sus padres y hermanas, en Madrid donde vivió desde 1976 hasta 1993. Allí hizo sus estudios primarios, secundarios y universitarios. Estudió piano, danza clásica, actuación y periodismo. A su regreso a Buenos Aires, se formó como actriz con Norman Briski y Ricardo Bartís y como dramaturga con Mauricio Kartun. Su primera experiencia como directora de teatro fue en el Sportivo Teatral con la obra de Witold Gombrowicz Ivonne, princesa de Borgoña. Primero como actriz, más tarde como dramaturga y directora, se dedicó al teatro independiente tanto en Buenos Aires como en Madrid. Escribió y dirigió varias piezas con las que viajó por Latinoamérica. Su obra La mirada horrible obtuvo 1º premio de la Secretaría de Cultura de la Nación, a obras estrenadas en el 2000. Ser el amo, estrenada en el Sportivo Teatral en 2002, el Subsidio a la creación Antorchas 2002. Por su obra La amante de Baudelaire, recibió el Auspicio de la Embajada de Francia y el Apoyo de Proteatro. En el año 2004, su novela Muerta de hambre resultó merecedora del Primer Premio de Novela por el Fondo Nacional de las Artes. Desde entonces, ha publicado en editoriales argentinas, más tarde francesas. Ha sido traducida al inglés, al portugués y al sueco. Colabora en medios a ambos lados del océano y desde 2010 coordina talleres de escritura. Ha participado en Ferias y Festivales literarios en México, Perú, Colombia, Venezuela, Chile, Cuba, Uruguay, España y Francia. Fue seleccionada por la Feria Internacional de Libro de Guadalajara 2011 como uno de «Los secretos mejor guardados de la literatura latinoamericana».

Jazmina Barrera (Ciudad de México, 1988) fue becaria de la Fundación para las Letras Mexicanas y beneficiaria de las residencias de la Casa Estudio Cien Años de Soledad. Fue becaria del programa de Jóvenes Creadores del Fonca. Estudió la maestría en Escritura Creativa en Español en NYU con el apoyo de la beca Fullbright. Sus textos han sido publicados en revistas como The Paris Review, El País, Words Without Borders, Malpensante, Electric Literature y The New York Times, entre otras. Es autora de Cuerpo extraño, Cuaderno de faros, Linea nigra, Los nombres de los animales y Punto de Cruz. Su libro de ensayos Cuerpo extraño / Foreign Body ganó el premio Latin American Voices 2013. Linea nigra fue finalista del premio CANIEM al libro del año, del premio Primera Novela y del National Book Critics Crircle’s Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize. Cuaderno de faros fue parte de la longlist del premio Von Rezzori. Sus libros han sido publicados en nueve países y traducidos al inglés, italiano, holandés y francés. Es socia fundadora de Ediciones Antílope. Vive en Ciudad de México (Source: https://www.jazminabarrera.com/)

Mary Ruefle is an American poet and essayist. The daughter of a military officer, Ruefle was born outside Pittsburgh in 1952, but spent her early life traveling around the U.S. and Europe. She graduated from Bennington College in 1974 with a degree in Literature. Ruefle's work has been widely published in literary journals. She has received a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, a Whiting Writer's Award, a Guggenheim fellowship, and an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Ruefle currently lives in New England. She teaches in the MFA in Writing program at Vermont College and is visiting faculty with the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. For more information on this author, go to: http://www.wavepoetry.com/authors/50-...

Emily Dickinson was an American poet who, despite the fact that less than a dozen of her nearly eighteen hundred poems were published during her lifetime, is widely considered one of the most original and influential poets of the 19th century. Dickinson was born to a successful family with strong community ties, she lived a mostly introverted and reclusive life. After she studied at the Amherst Academy for seven years in her youth, she spent a short time at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary before returning to her family's house in Amherst. Thought of as an eccentric by the locals, she became known for her penchant for white clothing and her reluctance to greet guests or, later in life, even leave her room. Most of her friendships were therefore carried out by correspondence. Although Dickinson was a prolific private poet, fewer than a dozen of her nearly eighteen hundred poems were published during her lifetime.The work that was published during her lifetime was usually altered significantly by the publishers to fit the conventional poetic rules of the time. Dickinson's poems are unique for the era in which she wrote; they contain short lines, typically lack titles, and often use slant rhyme as well as unconventional capitalization and punctuation.Many of her poems deal with themes of death and immortality, two recurring topics in letters to her friends. Although most of her acquaintances were probably aware of Dickinson's writing, it was not until after her death in 1886—when Lavinia, Emily's younger sister, discovered her cache of poems—that the breadth of Dickinson's work became apparent. Her first collection of poetry was published in 1890 by personal acquaintances Thomas Wentworth Higginson and Mabel Loomis Todd, both of whom heavily edited the content. A complete and mostly unaltered collection of her poetry became available for the first time in 1955 when The Poems of Emily Dickinson was published by scholar Thomas H. Johnson. Despite unfavorable reviews and skepticism of her literary prowess during the late 19th and early 20th century, critics now consider Dickinson to be a major American poet. For more information, please see http://www.answers.com/topic/emily-di...

Mónica Ojeda (Guayaquil, Ecuador, 1988). Máster en Creación Literaria y en Teoría y Crítica de la Cultura, dio clases de Literatura en la Universidad Católica de Santiago de Guayaquil. Actualmente vive en Madrid. Ha publicado las novelas Mandíbula (Candaya, 2018), Nefando (Candaya, 2016) que tuvo una espectacular recepción crítica y La desfiguración Silva (Premio Alba Narrativa 2014). En 2017 publicó el relato Caninos y otro de sus cuentos fue antologado en Emergencias. Doce cuentos iberoamericanos (Candaya, 2013). Con El ciclo de las piedras, su primer libro de poemas, obtuvo el Premio Nacional de Poesía Desembarco 2015. Forma parte de la prestigiosa lista de Bogotá 39-2017, que recoge a los 39 escritores latinoamericanos menores de 40 años con más talento y proyección de la década.

Jen Craig is the author of the novels Since the Accident and Panthers and the Museum of Fire, which was longlisted for the 2016 Stella Prize in Australia and is now published by Zerogram Press in the USA (2020). Her short stories have appeared in literary journals on both sides of the Pacific, and her libretto for Michael Schneider’s chamber opera A Dictionary of Maladies was performed in Lenzburg, Switzerland. Jen holds a doctorate on transgenerational trauma, anorexia and the gothic from Western Sydney University, and is currently living on Darug and Gundungurra lands. (Source: https://sydneyreviewofbooks.com/write...)

Anna Kavan was born "Helen Woods" in France on April 10, 1901 to wealthy expatriate British parents. Her initial six works were published under the name of Helen Ferguson, her first married name. These early novels gave little indication of the experimental and disturbing nature of her later work. I Am Lazarus (1945), a collection of short stories which explored the inner mindscape of the psychological explorer, heralded the new style and content of Kavan's writing. The change in her writing style and physical appearance coincided with a mental breakdown. During this time, Helen also renamed herself Anna Kavan after a character in her own novel Let Me Alone. Around 1926 Anna became addicted to heroin. Her addiction has been described as an attempt to self-medicate rather than recreational. Kavan made no apologies for her heroin usage. She is popularly supposed to have died of a heroin overdose. In fact she died of heart failure, though she had attempted suicide several times during her life.

Bernadette Mayer (born May 12, 1945) is an American poet, writer, and visual artist associated with both the Language poets and the New York School. Mayer's record-keeping and use of stream-of-consciousness narrative are two trademarks of her writing, though she is also known for her work with form and mythology. In addition to the influence of her textual-visual art and journal-keeping, Mayer's poetry is widely acknowledged as some of the first to speak accurately and honestly about the experience of motherhood. Mayer edited the journal 0 TO 9 with Vito Acconci, and, until 1983, United Artists books and magazines with Lewis Warsh. Mayer taught at the New School for Social Research, where she earned her degree in 1967, and, during the 1970s, she led a number of workshops at the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church in New York. From 1980 to 1984, Mayer served as director of the Poetry Project, and her influence in the contemporary avant-garde is felt widely, with writers like Kathy Acker, Charles Bernstein, John Giorno, and Anne Waldman having sat in on her workshops. (from Wikipedia)

Tamara Romero nació en Barcelona y escribe ficción especulativa y terror. Es autora de Her Fingers, una nouvelle publicada por la editorial americana Eraserhead Press en 2012, y de las novelas Respiración de fuego, Brújula y Murciélago, La estatua que tiembla o la colección de relatos Objeto ancla. Algunos de sus cuentos han aparecido en The Barcelona Review, Strange Horizons, El gran libro de Satán o Presencia Humana, entre otras revistas y antologías. Su historia El aeropuerto del fin del mundo obtuvo un premio Ignotus en 2014. Visita www.tamararomero.com para más infomación. Newsletter: http://eepurl.com/MGPmL ****** Tamara Romero was born in Barcelona and writes speculative and horror fiction. Her Fingers (Eraserhead Press, 2012) is her first book. She also wrote, in Spanish, Brújula y murciélago, La estatua que tiembla and the story collection Cuarto acercamiento al ovni, among others. Her short fiction has been featured in Presencia Humana, The Barcelona Review, Strange Horizons or Combustible Lovecraft. Her story The airport at the end of the world got an Ignotus Award in 2014. Check her website at www.tamararomero.com.

Amina Memory Cain is the author of the novel Indelicacy, a New York Times Editors’ Choice and staff pick at the Paris Review, published in February 2020 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, and two collections of short fiction, Creature, out with Dorothy, a publishing project, and I Go To Some Hollow, with Les Figues Press. Her writing has appeared in Granta, The Paris Review Daily, n+1, BOMB, Full Stop, the Believer Logger, and other places. She has also co-curated literary events, such as When Does It or You Begin?, a month long festival of writing, performance, and video at Links Hall in Chicago, Both Sides and The Center, a summer festival of readings and performances enacting various levels of proximity, intimacy, and distance at the MAK Center/Schindler House in West Hollywood, and the Errata Salon, a talk/lecture series at Betalevel in Los Angeles’ Chinatown. She lives in Los Angeles and is a literature contributing editor at BOMB. You can sometimes find her online on Twitter (@aminamemory) & Instagram (@amina_memory).

María Pilar Jiménez Aleixandre, nada en Madrid o 1 de maio de 1947, é escritora en lingua galega, tradutora, bióloga e académica de número da Real Academia Galega. De avoas e avós andaluces, valencianos e madrileños, naceu en Madrid en 1947. Di sentir saudade dos sitios nos que viviu, Ceuta, Doña Mencía (Córdoba), e Madrid, pero dende 1973 reside en Galicia, onde adoptou o galego como a súa lingua literaria e se converteu nunha das escritoras galegas actuais con obra máis consolidada e recoñecida. É profesora da Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, onde ensina Didáctica das Ciencias Experimentais e Educación Ambiental, dende 1988. O primeiro relato que escribiu, un conto sobre vampiros, foi o xermolo de Agardando polos morcegos. Logo viñeron A formiga coxa, a súa primeira novela de literatura infantil, e A expedición do Pacífico (Premio da Crítica de Galicia 1995). Ademais de destacar como autora de literatura infanto-xuvenil tamén escribiu para adultos. Foi finalista do Premio Xerais de Novela en 1992 con Tránsito dos Gramáticos. En 1996 publicou o libro de relatos Lobos nas illas, sobre as difíciles relacións familiares, en 1998 a novela A compañía clandestina de contrapublicidade (Premio Álvaro Cunqueiro dese mesmo ano), e no 2001 Teoría do Caos (Premio Xerais 2001), unha novela ambiciosa e fragmentaria sobre como é posible traizoarse a un mesmo. Boa parte da súa obra narrativa está traducida ó castelán, portugués, catalán e vasco. En 2020 gañou o premio Blanco Amor por As malas mulleres. Traduciu do inglés para o galego o poemario Muller ceiba (1996) de Sandra Cisneros, A caza do Carbairán, de Lewis Carroll (incluída na Lista de Honra do IBBY en 1997) e Harry Potter e a pedra filosofal, o primeiro volume da serie Harry Potter, no 2001, sendo ademais a responsable dos guións dos 14 capítulos da serie de banda deseñada Os Escachapedras, con ilustracións de Fran Bueno. Como poeta participou en varias publicacións colectivas e nas actividades do Batallón Literario da Costa da Morte. En 1998 gañou o Premio Esquío co poemario Catálogo de velenos. En 2010 foi nomeada Socia de honra da Asociación de Escritores en Lingua Galega. Ten así mesmo colaboracións en diversas revistas sobre cultura e literatura: CLIJ, Festa da Palabra Silenciada, Dorna e El Signo del Gorrión. Así mesmo é autora de obras sobre o ensino das Ciencias. Foi elixida académica de número da Real Academia Galega no pleno do 9 de xullo de 2016, pronunciando o 14 de xaneiro de 2017 o discurso de ingreso "Voces termando da paisaxe galega", respostado por Fina Casalderrey. O 28 de marzo de 2017 foi escollida tesoureira da Real Academia Galega.

Clyo Huitzilin Mendoza Herrera nació en Oaxaca, México, en 1993. Poeta y narradora, es autora de Anamnesis (Cuadrivio, 2016) y Silencio (Fondo editorial del Estado de México, 2018), libro por el cual obtuvo el Premio Internacional de Poesía Sor Juan Inés de la Cruz en 2017. Ha participado en las antologías Poetas parricidas (Cuadrivio, 2014), Tiembla (Almadía, 2018), Los reyes subterráneos. Veinte poetas jóvenes de México (La Bella Varsovia, 2015) y Todo pende de una transparencia. Muestra de poesía mexicana reciente (Vallejo & Company, 2016). Ha sido becaria del FONCA en los géneros de Poesía y Novela y residente becaria de la Fundación Antonio Gala, en Córdoba, España. Furia, publicada en 2021, fue su primera novela.