San Fernando de Apure, 1952

Poet, publisher, translator, and professor. His aesthetic vision has made him one of the most vital voices in contemporary Venezuelan poetry. He is an authentic explorer and devotee of language by juxtaposing different techniques, media, times, and landscapes.

©️ Carlos París

Valera, 1947

Psychologist, teacher, and social analyst. Ph.D. from Columbia University, NY. Author of articles, memoirs, essays, and stories for children. Movie buff and amateur dancer.

©️ Nelson González Leal

Ciudad de México, 1986

Poet and translator. She wins the Bellas Artes Poetry Prize 2020, the Alonso Vidal National Poetry Prize 2017, and the Bellas Artes Prize in Literary Translation 2019 for her rendering in Spanish of Ocean Vuong's Night Sky with Exit Wounds. Her work in English has appeared in Poetry International, Tupelo Quarterly, and Border Crossing, among others. Her poems in Spanish have been published in Letras Libres, Revista de la Universidad, Tierra Adentro, Este País, Periódico de Poesía, and elsewhere. She received the Fundación Para las Letras Mexicanas fellowship (2016-2017-2018) and two Jóvenes Creadores FONCA fellowship (2015-2016, 2018-2019).

©️ Aura García-Junco

Caracas, 1962

Poet, essayist, and professor. Ph.D. in Romance Languages from the University of Cincinnati. In 1997, he attended the internationally acclaimed Iowa University writers program. Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Hispano-American Poetry Award (1999).

©️ Carlos Ancheta

Cardiff, 1938

Poet, translator, and retired professor. She has lived in Venezuela for over forty years and has published several poetry collections in Spanish. As a translator, she has turned some of Venezuela’s best-known poets into English, including Rafael Cadenas, Eugenio Montejo, and Yolanda Pantin.

©️ Andrea Fernanda Mora

Caracas, 1992

Graduate in Philosophy from the Universidad Central de Venezuela. He has published the book Impercepciones (2011). His poems, reviews, and articles have been published in several media.

©️ Armando Nori

Caracas, 1973

Writer, professor, and clinical psychologist. MSc. in Community Psychology from Manchester Metropolitan University. Expert in youth, sport, violence, and exclusion.

©️ Walter Díaz

Fondi, 1965

Writer and diplomat. He has published novels, poetry collections, stories, and fables for children. He is an illustrator and scriptwriter. I venerdì santi is his latest book, published in Italy in 2017 by the prestigious publisher Passigli of Florence.

©️ Silvio Mignano

Las Mesitas, 1947

Writer, essayist, professor, photographer and japonologist. One of the finest voices in contemporary Venezuelan literature. His work illustrates the highest qualities of narrative as art. He has been a guest researcher and teacher at Japanese institutions.

©️ Leda Quintero

Camagüey, 1984

Writer. She's the author of the columns Irrelevante in the digital magazine El Estornudo and 53 Noviecitas in Hypermedia Magazine. She's a recognized author with several significant prizes, such as the Paz Prize, 2016; the Premio Casa de Las Américas, 2016; and the Premio Iberoamericano de Cuentos Julio Cortázar, 2011. Her books are available in translation into English, German, Italian, and Portuguese.

©️ Evelyn Sosa Rojas

Caracas, 1966

Poet, researcher, and critic. Associate Professor at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá and Titular Professor at Universidad Simón Bolívar in Caracas. She has written and published recognized critical works and poetry collections. Also, she has translated some of Venezuela’s best-known voices into Italian as Yolanda Pantin and Rafael Cadenas.

©️ Héctor José Palacios Pereira

Caracas, 1986

Holds a PhD in Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Literatures from New York University. He has worked as an instructor at both the School of Arts and the School of Literature at the Central University of Venezuela. Since 2016, he has lived in the United States, where he has taught Spanish and Latin American culture courses at New York University. In 2019, he coedited the volume Radical Disobedience, a book on Venezuelan performance and politics, for HemiPress. He has authored various academic works covering multiple fields such as psychoanalysis and Venezuelan, Caribbean, and Brazilian studies. His research has received several awards, including the MacCracken Fellowship (2016), the Alpine Fellowship (2018), the NYU Migration Network Award (2021), and the Penfield Fellowship (2022).

As a poet, Alejandro Castro has authored the following books: Parasitarias (Libros del Fuego, 2020); El lejano oeste (bid&co, 2013), which received the 2014 Book of the Year award from the Venezuelan Booksellers Association; and No es por vicio ni por fornicio. Uranismo y otras parafilias (Monte Ávila, 2011), which won the National Contest for Unpublished Authors in 2010. His nonfiction has been published in digital media outlets, newspapers, and journals.

Argentina, 1982

Studied Literature and Linguistics at the Universidad de Buenos Aires, completed a master's degree in creative writing at New York University and a Ph.D at The Graduate Center in New York, where she has been teaching literature and writing workshops since 2010. Her nouvelle Pasajes was translated into English --Passages-- in 2018 and published by Chatos Inhumanos. Her third book, an epistolary memoir, O ar / The Air, was published in 2022 in Argentina and in 2023 in the US. The first edition of La visita (published in Spain by Demipage) earned the recognition of Talento Fnac in 2013.