Contributors
- Contributors
GINT ARAS’ writing has appeared in Antique Children, Criminal Class Review, Square One, Šiaurės Atėnai and Curbside Splendor. He is the author of a novel, Finding the Moon in Sugar.
ADRIAN CASTRO is a poet, performer, and interdisciplinary artist. Born in Miami and being of Caribbean heritage has provided fertile ground for the rhythmic Afro-Caribbean style in which he writes and performs. He is the author of Cantos to Blood & Honey (Coffee House Press), Wise Fish (Coffee House Press, 2005), Handling Destiny (Coffee House Press 2009). Adrián Castro is also a Babalawo, herbalist, and acupuncturist.
MABEL CUESTA is a Cuban-born essayist and writer. Her education was completed at University of Havana, University Complutense of Madrid and The CUNY Graduate Center. Currently Assistant Professor at the University of Houston, Cuesta is dedicated to teaching Latin American Literature. Her research focuses on Spanish Caribbean female authors. She has published peer reviewed articles in Cuba, United States, Canada, Brazil, Honduras, Colombia, Spain and Mexico.
NESTOR DIAZ DE VILLEGAS is a poet and performer. He attended the San Alejandro Academy, in Havana. At eighteen he was sentenced to six years in jail for his poem Ode to Carlos III, spent five years in the concentration camp of Ariza, and was deported in 1979. Díaz de Villegas resides in Los Angeles. His poetry has been translated into English, German, Czech and French, and has appeared in Lichtungen (Viena), Sugar Mule Literary Magazine #15 (USA), and in Andrea O’Reilly Herrera Cuban Artists Across the Diaspora (University of Texas Press, 2011).
ARIEL DORFMAN, Chilean American writer and human rights activist, holds the Walter Hines Page Chair at Duke University. His books, written both in Spanish and English, have been translated into more than 40 languages and his plays have been staged in over 100 countries. His numerous international awards include two Kennedy Center awards and the Laurence Olivier Award (for “Death and the Maiden,” made into a feature film by Roman Polanski). His latest book is Feeding on Dreams: Confessions of an Unrepentant Exile, from which this diary entry is extracted. He lives with his wife Angélica in Durham, North Carolina, and contributes regularly to major newspapers and magazines worldwide.
KRISTIN DYKSTRA’s translations and commentary are featured in bilingual editions of books by Reina María Rodríguez and Omar Pérez. Her recent criticism, interviews, and translations appear in Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas, BOMB, The Harvard Review, La Habana Elegante, Sirena, and Hotel Lautréamont: Contemporary Poetry from Uruguay. A 2012 NEA Literary Translation Fellow, she is Associate Professor of English at Illinois State University.
CRISTINA GARCIA is the author of five novels, including Dreaming in Cuban, The Agüero Sisters and The Lady Matador’s Hotel. García has edited Cubanísimo: The Vintage Book of Contemporary Cuban Literature and Bordering Fires: The Vintage Book of Contemporary Mexican and Chicano/a Literature. Her newest work is Dreams of Significant Girls, a young adult novel. García’s work has been nominated for a National Book Award and translated into fourteen languages. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Writers’ Award, a Hodder Fellowship at Princeton University, and an NEA grant, among others.
ERIKA M. MARTINEZ is recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship and a Hedgebrook Writing Residency, she holds an M.F.A. in English and Creative Writing from Mills College in Oakland, CA. While she was a member of Teatro Luna in Chicago, her work was adapted for the stage and presented at INTAR and PSNBC’s Here Theater in New York City. Her writing has been featured in several publications including Colorlines magazine, The Womanist, and Revista Ping Pong, as well as the Seal Press anthology, Homelands: Women’s Journeys through Race, Place and Time. Her poetry was part of the Terror? exhibit at San Francisco’s Intersection for the Arts and has been heard on KPFA public radio. A Fellow at the National Writing Project in New Hampshire Summer Institute, she continues to work to establish an NWP site in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Currently she is editing an anthology of narratives by Dominican women.
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