Rosario Ferré Ramírez de Arellano was a Puerto Rican writer, poet, and essayist. Her father, Luis A. Ferré, was the third elected Governor of Puerto Rico and the founding father of the New Progressive Party of Puerto Rico. When her mother, Lorenza Ramírez de Arellano, died in 1970 during her father's term as governor, Rosario fulfilled the duties of First Lady until 1972.
Jorge Majfud is a Uruguayan American writer.
Giannina Braschi is a Puerto Rican poet, novelist, dramatist, and scholar. Her notable works include Empire of Dreams (1988), Yo-Yo Boing! (1998) and United States of Banana (2011).
Benito Pastoriza Iyodo is an author of poetry, poetics, fiction and literary articles. The themes of his literary works include: man's evolution from childhood to adulthood, examination of self, the precipices of culture and its rituals, violence in the cities, examination of stereotypes, the constructs of communication, gender roles and sexuality, education systems and racism, exploitation and the manifestation of exclusion through political and economic powers.
Literal: Latin American Voices is a quarterly cultural magazine focusing on art, architecture, literature, politics, culture, writers, intellectualism and current world events. It publishes most of its articles in both English and Spanish. It distributes nationwide in Mexico, the United States and Canada.
Consuelo Hernández is a Colombian American poet, scholar, literary critic and associate professor of Latin American studies at American University since 1995.
Daisy Cocco DeFilippis is a Dominican-American academic administrator and author. She is the current president at Hostos Community College in The Bronx, making her the first person born in the Dominican Republic to serve as President of a college of the City University of New York. From 2008 to 1 August 2020 she was president of Naugatuck Valley Community College (NVCC) in Waterbury, Connecticut. She is the author of works of fiction and non-fiction dealing with Dominican and Dominican-American women.
Susana Chávez-Silverman is a U.S. Latina writer and professor of Romance Languages and Literatures at Pomona College in Claremont, California.
Ruben Varona is a Colombian author and literary critic, specialized in crime and historical fiction.
Luis Alberto Ambroggio is an Argentine American poet, independent scholar and writer. Full Member of the North American Academy of the Spanish Language and correspondent of the Spanish Royal Academy. His works include award-winning essays, poetry and translations. Influenced by F. Nietzsche, César Vallejo, Jorge Luis Borges, Vicente Aleixandre, his poetry has been described by Pulitzer-prize winner Oscar Hijuelos as:
wise and philosophical. It owns an inimitable cadence, uncommon good sense, and a smoldering depth—for there is fire in Ambroggio's blueness, an earthy eroticism in his lyric register.
Yo-Yo Boing! (1998) is a postmodern novel in English, Spanish, and Spanglish by Puerto Rican author Giannina Braschi. The cross-genre work is a structural hybrid of poetry, political philosophy, musical, manifesto, treatise, memoir, and drama. The work addresses tensions between Anglo-American and Hispanic-American cultures in the United States.
Lourdes Vázquez is a Puerto Rican poet, fiction and essayist writer born in Santurce, Puerto Rico and a resident of the United States. Her poetry, short stories and essays have been published in numerous magazines and anthologies. Her many collections, which have been translated into English and Italian by writers such as Bethany Korps-Edwards, Rosa Alcalá, Enriqueta Carrington and Brigidina Gentile have received excellent reviews. She is Librarian Emeritus of Rutgers University.
Juan Carlos Méndez Guédez is a Venezuelan writer born in Barquisimeto, Venezuela in 1967. From an early age, he and his family moved to Caracas, where he lived in the popular area of Los Jardines del Valle, but always kept a close connection with his native hometown. He earned a Bachelor of Arts from the Central University of Venezuela with a thesis on poetry groups "Traffic" and "Guaire". Later he earned a Ph.D. in Hispanic American Literature from the University of Salamanca with a thesis on the Venezuelan writer José Balza.
Alexis Iparraguirre is a Peruvian short story writer.
Luis Aguilar Monsalve is an Ecuadorian writer, critic, and professor emeritus at Hanover College in the United States.
Nery Santos Gómez is a Venezuelan-American author.
Elvira Navarro Ponferrada is a Spanish writer.
Ana Teresa Torres is a Venezuelan novelist, essayist and short story writer. Her writing, both fiction and non-fiction, is often concerned with Venezuelan history and politics, memory, gender, and psychoanalysis.
Keila Vall de la Ville is a Venezuelan author living in the United States. She is the author the 2016 novel Los días animales (2016) which received the International Latino Book Awards for Best Novel in 2018 and has been translated into English as The Animal Days (2021). Vall de la Ville's 2007 short story collection Ana no duerme (2007) was finalist in Venezuela's Concurso Nacional de Autores Inéditos. She has published the poetry book Viaje legado (2016), the short story collection Ana no duerme y otros cuentos (2016) and has edited the forthcoming anthology Between the Breath and the Abyss: Poetics on Beauty, a compilation of essays and poems by thirty-three contemporary poets on the subject of Beauty. Her fiction and non-fiction work is included in several anthologies. She collaborates with El Nacional's Papel Literario del Diario El Nacional, Viceversa Magazine and Prodavinci, among other digital media.
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.
