Barbarella D´Acevedo (Havana, Cuba, 1985). Writer. Art and creative writing teacher, and editor. Playwright, graduate of ISA and the Onelio Jorge Cardoso Literary Training Center. Member of the National Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba. She has received multiple awards, including: Holguín City Prize for Narrative (2022), Hermanos Loynaz (2021), XIX Paco Mollá Poetry Contest 2020 (Spain), Bustos Domecq (2020), and El reino de este mundo creation scholarship, for the poetry album Discurso de Eva (PM Records). He has published: Street Musicians, The Triumph of Eros and White and Blue with Editorial Primigenios (Miami), Basilio and Desire (DMcPherson Editorial, Panama), Erebus (Aguaclara Libros, Spain), Fear Nothing, Life Smiles at You (R. La Gaveta, and Ediciones Loynaz), The Triumph of Eros (Editorial Ácana), Havana Pulp Mission (Ediciones Solaris, Uruguay), Train for Salinger (Ediciones Loynaz), The House, the World and the Desert (Ediciones Hurón Azul, Spain), Red Tide (Ediciones Enlaces, Chile), The Legendaries (Poe Editorial, Guatemala), among others. His work has also been published in various anthologies throughout the world.

Manuel José de Lara (Huelva, Spain, 1963) has a doctorate in History from the University of Seville and professor of Modern History at the University of Huelva. He is also a specialist in Cultural History of the Enlightenment, director of the Center for Hungarian Studies and member of the Royal Sevillian Academy of Good Letters. As a poet he has published The Book of the First Insecurities (Huelva, 1986), The Detained River (Huelva, 1996), Collection Remains (Málaga, 2020), Family Book (Seville, 2022) and Apocryphal Portrait (Pamplona, 2022). . In Pliegos de Yuste: Magazine of European Culture, Science and Thought he published the collection of poems To my father (2012). His work is collected in History of Poetry in Huelva (1987) and Andalusian Poetic Panorama (1991). His poems appear in numerous anthologies, among which the following stand out: Lírica de una Atlántida (1986), Manuscriptos (1986), Juan Ramón de Fondo (1987), Poeti di Huelva a Genova (1989), Homenaje a Juan Ramón Jiménez (2008). ), Alchemy of the Earth (2013) and Poetical, sound archive of the Centro Andaluz de las Letras (2018).

René Fuentes (Bayamo, Cuba, 1969) Poet, narrator and playwright. He has lived in Uruguay since 1996. The ORT Uruguay University awarded him the Award for Teaching Excellence (2002). His most outstanding books are: Los gallinazos (Cuba, April Poetry Prize 1994 and Pinos Nuevos Prize 1995), Las trappas del paraíso (novel, Uruguay 1996 and the United States 2022), The written sea (Uruguay, novel, 2006, National Prize for Literature 2004), Caballo que ladra (Uruguay, Onetti Poetry Prize 2013 and National Literature Prize 2016), Guitarra del mesón (Spain, 2017, IX Blas de Otero-Villa de Bilbao Poetry Prize 2016), The hand that the the dog carried in his mouth (Spain, VI Fundación MonteLeón International Short Novel Award 2017), Pieces to repair a trill (United States, theater, 2021) and The seas that name me (poetry collected 1995-2020, Germany, 2021). Recently, his novel Cervantina won the Ciutat de València Prize for Fiction Vicente Blasco Ibáñez (2022).

Jeannette L. Clariond. Poet and translator, she has published, among others, Mujer turning her back; Deserted memory, Efraín Huerta National Poetry Award (1996); All before the night, Gonzalo Rojas Poetry Award (2001); for her translation of Charles Wright's Black Zodiac she was awarded the Rockefeller-Conaculta Scholarship (2004); for the Anthology of American Poetry: The School of Wallace Stevens, the Banff Translators Fellowship (2004); the Alda Merini House-Museum distinguished her with an award in Milan (2016). For her poetic work and her contribution to culture, she received the Juan de Mairena Award from the University of Guadalajara (2014). The same year the Autonomous University of Nuevo León distinguished her with the Editorial Merit Award and she published Astillada claridad. For her Before a naked body she won the San Juan de la Cruz Ibero-American Poetry Prize, Fontiveros, Spain (2018). For Las lágrimas de las cosas she won the Enriqueta Ochoa Poetry Award (2021).

Efe Rosario (Felix Miguel Rosario Ortiz, Puerto Rico) Writer, editor and university professor. He obtained his bachelor's degree from the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus and his doctorate in Latin American literature from Cornell University in New York with a thesis on memory, paranoia and personal writing. He has published two collections of poems: "The weather has been terrible with us" (Ediciones Alayubia, 2020) and "The places where we were happy also die" (winning work of the I Juan Ramón Jiménez International Poetry Award from Coral Gables). Some of his texts have appeared in newspapers, anthologies, and magazines in Puerto Rico, Mexico, Peru, Venezuela, the United States, and Spain.

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