Baranda, Maria: - María Baranda is one of the leading Mexican poets of the generation born in the 1960s. Her work has received Mexico's distinguished Efraín Huerta and Aguascalientes national poetry prizes, as well as Spain's Francisco de Quevedo Prize for Ibero-American Poetry.

Hoover, Paul: - Paul Hoover is the author of the poetry volumes Desolation: Souvenir (2012), Sonnet 56 (2009), Edge and Fold (2006) and Poems in Spanish (2005), which was nominated for a Bay Area Book Award. He is editor of Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology (1994), a second edition of which appeared in 2013, and co-editor of the literary magazine, New American Writing. He teaches Creative Writing at San Francisco State University.