Gabriela Aguirre & Laura Cesarco Eglin

Gabriela Aguirre is a poet from Querétaro, México She is the author of the poetry collections La frontera: un cuerpo (Fondo Editorial Tierra Adentro, 2003), El lugar equivocado de las cosas (Fondo Editorial de Querétaro, 2011), La casa es una espora (Ediciones El Humo, 2015), La isla de tu nombre (Veliz Books, 2017), and others. Aguirre is the recipient of many awards, including the 2003 Premio Nacional de Poesía Joven Elías Nandino and the 2007 Premio Nacional de Poesía Enriqueta Ochoa for her book El lugar equivocado de las cosas. She has been a fellow of FONCA (Jóvenes Creadores), a fellow of the Fundación para las Letras Mexicanas for Poetry from 2005 to 2007, and a fellow of the Instituto Queretano de la Cultura y las Artes (Creador con Trayectoria). Aguirre received an MFA in Creative Writing in Spanish from the University of Texas at El Paso and a PhD in Art from the Universidad de Guanajuato. She was a recipient of the Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte grant from 2018 to 2021.

Laura Cesarco Eglin is a poet and translator from Uruguay. She is the author of six collections of poetry, including the chapbooks Between Gone and Leaving—Home (dancing girl press, 2023) and Time/Tempo: The Idea of Breath (PRESS 254, 2022). Her poems and translations (from the Spanish, Portuguese, Portuñol, and Galician), have appeared in many journals such as Asymptote, Figure 1, Eleven Eleven, Puerto del Sol, Copper Nickel, Zócalo: Public Square, International Poetry Review, Tupelo Quarterly, Columbia Poetry Review, Timber, and more. Cesarco Eglin is the translator of Claus and the Scorpion by the Galician author Lara Dopazo Ruibal (co•im•press), longlisted for both the 2023 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation and the 2023 National Translation Award in Poetry. She is also the translator of Of Death. Minimal Odes by the Brazilian author Hilda Hilst (co•im•press), which was the winner of the 2019 Best Translated Book Award. She co-translated from the Portuñol Fabián Severo’s Night in the North (Eulalia Books, 2019). Cesarco Eglin is the publisher of Veliz Books. More at lauracesarcoeglin.com.