Ruben Quesada, author of Next Extinct Mammal and Luis Cernuda: Exiled from the Throne of Night, is poetry editor of Codex Journal, Stories & Queer, and the Cossack Review. He teaches literature and writing at Eastern Illinois University.

Francisco X. Alarcón is the author of thirteen poetry collections, including From the Other Side of Night, Snake Poems, and Sonnets to Madness. His most recent books of poems are Canto hondo/Deep Song and Borderless Butterflies/Mariposas sin fronteras. He teaches at the University of California, Davis.

Benjamin Garcia, a CantoMundo fellow, has received scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference and the Taos Summer Writers' Conference. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in As/Us Journal, [PANK], the Collagist, and Poet Lore.

Miguel M. Morales grew up working as a migrant farmworker. He is president of the Latino Writers Collective, a Lambda Literary Fellow, and a Macondista. His work appears in Primera Página, Cuentos del Centro, From Macho to Mariposa, Hibernation, Pilgrimage magazine, and the Lambda Literary Review.

Joe Jimenez