Silvia Goldman is a poet, teacher, and scholar. Originally from Uruguay, she has lived in the US since 2001. Her highly acclaimed collections of poetry include lo que se hereda es la orfandad (Karima Editora), árbol y otras ansiedades (Isla Negra), miedo (Axiara ediciones), De los peces la sed (Pandora Lobo Estepario), Cinco movimientos del llanto (Hermes criollo) and, with Esperanza Vives and Aldo Alcota, Ese eco que une los ojos (Almud Ediciones). Her poems have appeared in various anthologies and have been translated into English, Italian, Portuguese, Arabic, Bengali, Hebrew, Bosnian, and Finnish. She holds a Ph.D. in Hispanic Studies from Brown University and teaches at DePaul University in Chicago.
Mary Hawley is a poet, fiction writer, and literary translator (Spanish to English). Her translations of poetry and prose have appeared in Triquarterly, The Common, Deinós, and other journals, and she is currently translating a trilogy of novels by Uruguayan writer Sergio Altesor Licandro. She is the author of the poetry collection Double Tongues and co-translator of the bilingual anthology Shards of Light/Astillas de luz, both published by Tia Chucha Press. Her poems and short stories have appeared in many magazines and anthologies, and she has received an Illinois Arts Council Literary Award in fiction.