Charras

Hernán Lara Zavala was born in Mexico City in 1946. He read English Lit. at the University of Mexico and made a Master's Degree on "Studies on the Novel" at the University of East Anglia, England. He participated in The International Writing Program at the University of Iowa in 1987. He has published short stories, novels and literary essays, among them the novel Charras (1989), Península Península, (2008) Iberoamerican Novel Award 2009, and the Spanish Royal Academia Award 2010. Recently he published the novel The Last Carnival 2023. He teaches English Lit. at the National University of México.

Christopher Louis Romaguera is a Cuban-American writer who lives in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was born in Hialeah, Florida, and graduated from Florida International University in Miami, Florida. He has an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of New Orleans. Romaguera has been published in Passages North, Catapult, Massachusetts Review, Islandia, Latino Book Review and other publications. He is a monthly columnist at The Ploughshares Blog and is the Poetry Editor at Peauxdunque Review. He is a VONA alum. Romaguera was a 2023 Periplus Fellow. He is currently working on his first novel.