Brenda Cárdenas, an associate professor in the Department of English at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, is the author of the two poetry collections, “From the Tongues of Brick and Stone” and “Boomerang,” and co-editor of “Between the Heart and the Land: Latina Poets in the Midwest.”
Carmen Boullosa is the author of seventeen novels, fifteen poetry collections, four plays, two collections of short stories, and a screenplay.
Cecilia Bustamante is the author of nine poetry books. She also worked as journalist and is known to be the first female editorial writer in Peru for the newspaper La Tribuna.
Known worldwide as the “Queen of Salsa,” Cruz recorded more than 70 albums and received countless accolades.
Cristina Rivera Garza is the author of close to seventeen books, including Nadie me verá llorar (No One Will See Me Cry) (1999), La cresta de Ilión (The Iliac Crest) (2002), La Muerte me da (Death Hits) (2007), and El mal de la taiga (The Taiga Syndrome) (2012).
Lucia Aizim published nine works of poetry, short stories, novels and children’s literature, including Errância (1978), Exercício efêmero (1982) and Saga (1997).
Adriana del Carmen López Sántiz is a Tseltal poet from the community of Chanam del Carmen in Ocosingo, Chiapas.
Alicia de Colombí-Monguió is the author of three poetry collections including El aguardante (The One Who Awaits) (1970), Ser al sesgo y otras imitaciones (Being on the Bias and Other Imitations) (1981) y 31 sonetos (31 Sonnets) (1982).
She is the author of more than fifteen collections of poetry, including Quehaceres e invenciones (Chores and Inventions) (1963), Composición de lugar (Composition of Place) (1976), and La dama de Elche (The Lady of Elche) (1987).
Maria Isabel Herran, M.D., has devoted herself to international health, refugee children, and the development and regulation of international adoption.