Ana María Shua was born in Buenos Aries, Argentina and has published over 40 books including novel, short stories, sudden fictions, and poetry. Her work has been translated into over twelve languages and she has received numerious national and international awards. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship for her collection, The Book of Memories. Rhonda Dahl Buchanan is a professor of Spanish and Director of Latin American Studies at teh University of Louisville, KY and the recipient of a 2006 NEA translation fellowship. Her other books of translation include The Entre Rios Trilogy by Argentine writer Perla Suez, and the forthcoming The Secret Gardens of Mogador by Mexican writer Alberto Ruy Sanchez. Luci Mistratov, was born Lyudmila Mistratova in Kaliningrad, Russia, and holds a Ph.D. in Art Education from the Kaliningrad State University.

She has illustrated many books of fiction and biology, and has taught art classes and won awards in numerous national and international exhibitions in Europe and the United States. Presently, she is a Scholar-in-Residence for the.