Roberto Fernández Retamar was a Cuban poet, essayist, literary critic and President of the Casa de las Américas. In his role as President of the organization, Fernández also served on the Council of State of Cuba. An early close confidant of Che Guevara and Fidel Castro, he was a central figure in Cuba from the 1959 Revolution until his death in 2019. Fernández also wrote over a dozen major collections of verse and founded the Casa de las Americas cultural magazine.
Consuelo Hernández is a Colombian American poet, scholar, literary critic and associate professor of Latin American studies at American University since 1995.
Antonio Gamoneda Lobón is a Spanish poet, winner of the Cervantes Prize in 2006.
Goya Gutiérrez is a Spanish poet and writer.
Beatriz Villacañas is a poet, essayist and literary critic.
Juan Antonio Villacañas was a Spanish poet, essayist and critic. In 2015, he was named distinguished son of the city of Toledo.
Víctor Rodríguez Núñez is a Cuban poet, journalist, literary critic and translator.
Luis García Montero is a Spanish poet and literary critic, as well as a professor of Spanish Literature at the University of Granada.
Gabriel Celaya was a Spanish poet. Gabriel settled in Madrid and studied engineering, working for a time as a Manager in his family's business.
Rafael Díaz Ycaza was an Ecuadorian poet, novelist, short story writer, and columnist for the Ecuadorian newspaper El Universo.
Joaquín Badajoz is a Cuban-American writer, editor and journalist.
Juana Rosa Pita is a poet, writer, editor and translator. She was born in Havana on December 8, 1939. She left Cuba in 1961. Since then she has lived in many cities, including Washington, Caracas, Madrid, New Orleans, Miami, and Boston, where she currently resides. From 1989 to 1992 she was Visiting Professor at Tulane University. She is considered one of the most important contemporary Cuban and Latin American poets. The late Nicaraguan poet Pablo Antonio Cuadra hailed her as "one of the outstanding voices of Cuba’s pilgrim culture. Book after book Juana Rosa Pita has been creating a mysterious realm of love and prophecy: an island of enchantment where words restore all that hatred turned to ashes."
María Teresa Espasa Moltó is a Spanish Valencian poet, essayist and professor. She was born in Dénia, Marina Alta, Alicante) in the middle of the 20th century. She is known for her intense and animated literary and cultural style developed during the talk show "La Buhardilla" and through the magazine, Corondel.
Rose Mary Salum is an author and a publisher. She is the founder of the award winning bilingual magazine Literal Magazine. She is also the founder of Literal Publishing, a bilingual publisher house. She has taught as a visiting professor at Universidad de Iowa, Rice University, and Saint Thomas University.She is a member of the Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española. Her essays and fiction are included in an array of anthologies: Diáspora, Lados B, Narrativa de alto riesgo, The Body Subject & Subjected, Stirred Ground: Non-Fiction Writing by Contemporary Latina and Latin American Women Authors, Cruce de fronteras: Antología de escritores Iberoamericanos en Estados Unidos, Poéticas de los (dis)locamientos, Raíces latinas, narradores y poetas inmigrantes, America nuestra: antología de narrativa en español en Estados Unidos, Professions, among others. Her books have been translated to Italian, Bulgarian, Portuguese and English.
Laura Yasán was an Argentine poet.
Aurora Luque Ortiz is a Spanish poet, translator, teacher, and writer based in Andalusia.
Pilar Paz Pasamar was a Spanish poet and writer whose work has been translated into Italian, Arabic, French, English and Chinese. She was a member of the Cádiz branch of the 1950s poetic generation. She was a member of the Real Academia Hispano Americana de Cádiz since 1963. Her awards and honors include second place from the Premio Adonáis de Poesía for "Los buenos días" (1954), Adoptive Daughter of the city of Cádiz (2005), Meridiana Prize of the Andalusian Institute of Women (2005), included in the section "Own Names" of the Instituto Cervantes, and Author of the Year by the Andalusian Center of Letters of the Junta de Andalucía (2015). The city council of her hometown annually awards the Pilar Paz Pasamar Prize for short stories and poetry by women.
Manuel Álvarez Ortega was a Spanish poet, translator, writer, and veterinarian. He was the director and founder of the journal Aglae, which circulated between 1949 and 1954. He wrote many of his works in Madrid, the city where he lived starting in 1951.
Dolores Castro Varela was a Mexican poet, narrator, essayist and literary critic.
Luis Aguilar Martínez was a Mexican poet, essayist, narrator, and translator. He was the author of Debe ser ya noviembre, Muchachos que no besan en la boca, Libre de sospecha: Antología boreal and Los ojos ya deshechos, among other books.
