Zazil Alaíde Collins (Mexico, 1984). She is the author of several poetry books. Omen is her last publication (Valparaiso, Spain, 2023); Poetry Award Ciudad de La Paz in 2011, in South Lower California, Mexico, the original California. Part of her work has been translated to English and selected for the General Anthology of Mexican Poetry: From the Second half of the Twentieth Century to Our Days (2014). She works and studies at The University of Texas at El Paso, where she is one of the Junior Editors of Rio Grande Review, and a wild duck at Words on a Wire.

    Andrés Cisnegro. Mexico City, 1979. Poet, essayist, and editor. In 2017 he performed at Caravana Nacional de Poesía Colmillos de Musgo, which documented independent movements in poetry, and took place within each state of the thirty-two states—three locations within each state—in the Mexican Republic over ninety days. He has taught poetry workshops at IPN (Instituto Politécnico Nacional), UIA (Universidad Iberoamericana) and in community spaces. As a journalist, he was part of the editorial board at El Universal and El Independiente, and he was a collaborator for the magazines Bucareli 8 and Chilango as well as a researcher of niche poetry for Gran Fiesta Internacional Ajedrez, UNAM (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) in 2012.

      He studied Spanish Letters at UNAM and Social Communication at UAM (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana). He has been included in more than fifty anthologies. He is the founder of the Debate Abierto de Crítica Poética, creator of the Torneo de Poesía Adversario in the quadrilateral, the Miércoles Itinerantes de Poesía, and the Premio Latinoamericano de Poesía Transgresora. He is a collaborator at the program la Hora Nacional and Radio Etiopía. In 2013 he participated in the poetry cycle Poesía en Voz Alta. 

       He was awarded the recognition Prometeo Sur (Premio al Fomento de la Cultura, la Ciencia y el Arte) in 2016 as well as recognition for his literary career by Sociedad de Geografía y Estadística del Estado de México and the Casas del Poeta A. C. in 2019. He took second place in the Certamen Internacional Relámpago de Poesía Bernardo Ruiz in 2008; he has an honorable mention in the Concurso Nacional de Poesía El Laberinto, 2004 and in the Concurso Nacional de Poesía Jaime Sabines, 1999. He took second place in the Premio Nacional de Poesía Temática Tinta Nueva 2011. Fifteen of his published books are gathered in Camisa de once varas (Blanco Móvil, 2020).

      He is a co-founder of Verso Destierro and online editor of Blanco Móvil. He has collaborated with supplements and magazines in Mexico, Argentina, Portugal, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Chile, and Spain. His poetry has been translated into Nahuatl, English, and Portuguese. He is currently operator of the Cisnegro Multiple Project, high-risk readers and editorial cathode La Piraña.

       Andrew Romanelli was born and raised in Las Vegas through numerous implosions and expansive growth. He has lived in many of its historic areas and currently resides downtown. He is a product of the Family Court system, Special Education, and Montevista Hospital. Obtaining his GED at 16 (the year they lowered the age) and over a decade later his BA in English at Nevada State. His first (above table) job was through local 226 at the Showboat as a graveyard bus boy when he was a teenager. Since then, he has held (and lost) a vast array of jobs and currently works for a local printer as a guy who does whatever is needed. He is an activist for the disenfranchised, a teaching artist through Poetry Promise and a proud wobblie. He is a John Oliver Simon award recipient among other recognitions, and his first poetry collection Rotgut was published by Zeitgeist Press in 2022.

     Christopher Perkins is a poet and translator. He currently lives in Las Vegas, NV, land of the Southern Paiute Peoples, and he teaches for the University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV). He has been on the editorial staff for various literary journals. He is the author of several chapbooks. He has translated poetry books from French and Spanish into English. He holds a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Creative Writing with an emphasis in poetry and international literature.