Gisela Heffes is a Professor of Latin American Literature and Culture as well as a writer, ecocritic, and public intellectual with a particular focus on literature, media, and the environment in Latin America. She is the author of several novels, including Ischia (Deep Vellum, 2023). She currently resides in Baltimore, Maryland.

Grady C. Wray has taught Latin American literature, Spanish, and Translation at the University of Oklahoma for over two decades. He published the first bilingual critical edition of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz' Devotional Exercises. Apart from his critical work on women writers of the pre-modern period, his translations of poetry and fiction include Ischia (Deep Vellum, 2023) and The Mobile Zero of Its Mouth (2020) by Gisela Heffes; 2323 Stratford Ave. (2018) by Marcelo Rioseco; and Series 201 (2017) by Luisa Valenzuela.