Lipman, Mark: - "Mark Lipman, founder of the press Vagabond, the Culver City Book Festival, the Elba Poetry Festival; winner of the 2015 Joe Hill Labor Poetry Award; the 2016 International Latino Book Award and the 2023 L'Alloro di Dante (Dante's Laurel - Italy), a writer, poet, multi-media artist, activist, and author of fourteen books, began his career as the writer-in-residence at the world famous Shakespeare and Company in Paris, France (2002-2003). Since then, he has worked closely with such legendary poets as Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Jack Hirschman on many projects and for the last twenty years has been establishing a strong international following as a leading voice of his generation. He's the host and foreign correspondent for the radio program, Poetry from Around the World for Poets Café on KPFK 90.7 FM Los Angeles. As Mark continues to travel the world, he uses poetry to connect communities to the greater social justice issues, while building consciousness through the spoken word."

Lombardo, Anna: - Anna Lombardo lives in Venice. Poet, translator, and cultural activist. Degree from the Cà Foscari University of Venice with a PhD on the marginalization of female poetry at Trinity College in Dublin. Bilingual poetic collections: Even the Fish Are Drunk (2002); No Alibi (2004); That Something Missing (2009); Con candide mani (2020); Con cándidas manos (2023). She has edited the following anthologies: There Are Who Believe in Dreams (2014); 15x15 photography meets poetry (2020); The Translation at the Covid Time (2021). Since 2020, she has edited the four annual issues of Quaderni della Palabra, which collect the works of the poets participating in the Festival Palabra en el Mundo. She is a frequent guest at national and international festivals. She collaborates with Global Right, for which she has curated six interviews with contemporary international poets. Various authors' critical and translation works include A. Lowell, J. Hirschman, J. Lussu, PP. Pasolini, Chi Trung, and Matt Sedillo. Her poems have been translated into multiple languages and have been published in national and international journals and anthologies. Since 2009, she has been the artistic director of the FIP (International Poetry Festival) Palabra en el Mundo for Venice, which welcomes various national and international voices annually. She is among the founders of the International Poet's Net POP.

Drigo, Alessandra: - Alessandra Drigo (1994) is a postdoctoral researcher in environmental justice. Growing up in the Venetian countryside, she moved to Venice for her studies. Although Venice always feels like home, she has also lived in St. Petersburg, Berkeley (USA), and in Birmingham (UK). Alessandra's poetry in English follows the duplex structure, following Jericho Brown's formulation.