Tere Dávila is author of two story collections: Lego y otros pájaros raros and El fondillo maravilloso y otros efectos especiales. Her award-winning stories have been published in Spanish and English anthologies: Latitud 18.5, El ojo del huracán, Cuentos puertorriqueños para el nuevo milenio, and Palabras: Dispatches from the Festival de la Palabra. She has a BA from Harvard University and a master's degree in creative writing. Dávila lives in San Juan and is finishing her first novel.
Ana María Fuster Lavín is a Puerto Rican writer and cultural columnist. She has received awards from the PEN chapter in Puerto Rico for her novel Réquiem, and from El Instituto de Literatura Puertorriqueña for her story collection Verdades caprichosas. She is also the author of numerous poetry collections, including El libro de las sombras, Tras la sombra de la luna, and El eróscopo; and the gothic novel (In)somnio.
Manuel A. Meléndez was born in Puerto Rico and raised in East Harlem, New York. He is the author of two novels, four poetry collections, and two collections of short stories. His novel Battle for a Soul was a finalist for the 2015 International Latino Book Award for Best Mystery Novel. He's currently working on a collection of suspenseful short stories as well as a mystery novel, and lives in Sunnyside, New York.
Luis Negrón, a writer and bookseller, was born in Guayama, Puerto Rico, in 1970. Mundo cruel (2010), his first book, was awarded, in its English translation, with a 2013 Lambda Literary Award. His work has being adapted for the theater and cinema.
Manolo Núñez Negrón studied Latin American literature at the University of Puerto Rico — Río Piedras, and earned a PhD from Harvard. He was an assistant professor at Wellesley College, Massachusetts. Currently, he teaches at the University of Puerto Rico — Río Piedras. His first book of short stories, El oficio del vértigo, was published in 2010. In 2012 he published his first novella, Barra china.
Alejandro Álvarez Nieves is a Puerto Rican writer and translator, and an adjunct professor at the Graduate Program in Translation at the University of Puerto Rico — Río Piedras. He completed a PhD in translation studies from Universidad de Salamanca in 2013. His short stories have been published in several journals and publications. His poetry book El proceso traductor won the El Nuevo Día Poetry Contest in 2011.
Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro is a Puerto Rican writer. Her story collection Las negras won the National Prize from the PEN chapter in Puerto Rico in 2013. She has also won awards from the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture in 2012 and 2015, and from El Instituto de Literatura Puertorriqueña in 2008. Her notable children's books include La Linda Señora Tortuga and Thiago y la aventura de los túneles de San Germán.
Ernesto Quiñonez was heralded by the Village Voice as a "Writer on the Verge." The New York Times called his debut novel Bodega Dreams a "new immigrant classic." It has since become a landmark in contemporary American literature and is required reading in many colleges around the country. He is a Sundance Writer's Lab fellow and is currently an associate professor at Cornell University's MFA program.
José Rabelo is a Puerto Rican writer and dermatologist. He graduated from the University of Puerto Rico Medical Sciences program and received his master's degree in creative writing from the Universidad del Sagrado Corazón. He won the National Prize for Children's Stories in 2003 for his story collection Cielo, mar y tierra. He is the author of three novels: Cartas a Datovia, Los sueños ajenos, and Azábara. He received the Premio El Barco de Vapor in 2013 for Club de calamidades.
Mayra Santos-Febres has published more than twenty-five books of poetry, short stories, essay collections, and novels. Among her most well-known titles are Sirena Selena (2000), Our Lady of the Night (2006), and La amante de Gardel (2015). In 1996 she won the Juan Rulfo Award for her short story "Oso blanco." Her works have been translated into Croatian, Icelandic, French, Italian, German, and English. She currently teaches creative writing at the University of Puerto Rico.
Will Vanderhyden is a translator of Spanish-language literature. He has an MA in literary translation from the University of Rochester. He has translated two novels by the Chilean writer Carlos Labbé, Navidad & Matanza and Loquela, for Open Letter Books. His translations have appeared in journals like the Literary Review, Asymptote, and Two Lines. In 2015, he received an NEA Translation Fellowship and a Lannan Writer's Residency.
Charlie Vázquez is the director of the Bronx Writers Center, as well as the author of the novels Buzz and Israel (2005), and Contraband (2010). He has served as the New York City coordinator for Puerto Rico's Festival de la Palabra and has just finished his third novel, a paranormal mystery set in Old San Juan. He lives in the Bronx, where he was born.