Sobrevivir y otros complejos: Narrative Poems in Englillano es un libro semi-bilingue. Algunos poemas estan escritos en Spanglish and the author has translated some poems into ingles o castellano. Otros se han quedado en su idioma original. Mariana Romo-Carmona is the author of Living At Night, Conversaciones, Speaking Like An Immigrant, and co-editor and translator of a number of anthologies. She was born in Chile, in 1952 and emigrated to the U.S. in 1966. En 1984, obtuvo ciudadania neoyorquina.

She was on the faculty of the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Goddard College for 12 years, and teaches literature at the JSM Institute for Labor Studies/CUNY since 2001. Publica ficcion y critica en http: //marianaromocarmona.wordpress.com and http: //marianaromo-carmona.blogspot.com.