Carla Faesler is a writer and experimental poet. She is the author of the novel, Formol, (Tusquets, 2014), considered the best book published in 2014 by the magazine La Tempestad.

Alexander Shurbanov (Sofia, 1941) is author of two dozen books of poems and essays. He has translated into Bulgarian Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, Shakespeare’s mature tragedies, Milton’s Paradise Lost and Dylan Thomas’s poems.

This year the Lunar New Year which fell on 25 January is one of the very rare occasions  in which Chinese migrant workers  can go back to their place of origin to reunite with their families. This year the traditional celebration coincided with the outbreak of the epidemic.  After the announcement of the national emergency on 20 January and the lockdown of the Hubei province, where the city of Wuhan is located, on the 23rd, the vacation time was extended first by one week, and then until further notice.

Green handed- Travis Harman, A Creative Nonfiction You can see light if you look deep into the darkness.