Mario Meléndez (Linares, Chile, 1971). He studied Journalism and Social Communication. His books include: Notes for a legend, Underground flight, The paper circus, Death has its days numbered, Waiting for Perec and The magician of loneliness. Part of his work was translated into various languages. In 2013 he received the medal of the President of the Italian Republic, awarded by the Don Luigi di Liegro International Foundation. A selection of his work appeared in the prestigious magazine Poesia de Nicola Crocetti. At the beginning of 2015, he was included in the anthology El canon abierto. Last poetry in Spanish (Visor, Spain). In 2017 some of his poems were translated into English and published in the legendary Poetry Magazine, from Chicago. In 2018 he returned to Chile to become general editor of the Vicente Huidobro Foundation.

Jeremy Paden is a professor of Spanish at Transylvania University. He is the author of three chapbooks of poems: Broken Tulips (Accents Press, 2012), ruina montium (Broadstone Books, 2016), and prison recipes (Broadstone Books, 2018). His first full-length collection of poems, world as sacred burning heart (3: A Taos Press, 2021), a collection of poems on the colonization of the Americas by the Spanish, has just been published. And a collection of poems originally written in Spanish, Autorretrato como una Iguana/Self-Portrait as an Iguana, which co-won the inaugural Poet en Nueva York Prize in 2020 is about to be published by Valparaíso USA. His bilingual, illustrated children’s book about migrant caravans, Under the Ocelot Sun (Shadelandhouse Modern Press, 2020), recently won the Campoy-Ada prize for Spanish language picture books. He has also published translations of Argentine, Chilean, Mexican, and Spanish poets.