Virginia Lucas earned her doctorate in Letters from the Universidad de la República (Uruguay). She is an editor and essayist. Her latest book, co-edited with Jesse Lee Kercheval, is titled Mis Razones: mujeres poetas del Uruguay. Ensayos (Biblioteca Nacional, 2019).

Natasha Tanna earned her doctorate in Catalan, Spanish, and Latin American literature from the University of Cambridge and is now a researcher-professor of literature at the University of York, United Kingdom. She is the author of Queer Genealogies in Transnational Barcelona: Flavia Company, María-Mercè Marçal, Cristina Peri Rossi (Legenda, 2019).