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Irela Casañas Hijuelos, born in Santiago de Cuba, graduated in Sociology from the Universidad de Oriente. In 2011 she received a Master in History and Culture in Cuba from the University of Holguín "Oscar Lucero Moya," and
later graduated from the narrative techniques workshop convened by the "Onelio Jorge Cardoso" Literary Training Center. Her collection of poems, Manual del triunfo, was published in 2006. In 2011 Ediciones La Luz published her essay, Testimonio del margen, and her poetry collection, La enfermedad del bronce, in 2015. Her critical essay, Sociología y literatura: dos caminos para conocer la irreverencia, was published by Black Diamond Editions in 2013. Irela is a member of la Asociación Hermanos Saíz, a non-governmental association of young Cuban artists and writers.
Jabez “Bill” Churchill lives in Ukiah, California, where he was the city’s first bilingual Poet Laureate. He is a modern language instructor at Woodland Community College in Clearlake, and teaches poetry at Mendocino County Juvenile Hall through California Poets in the Schools. He began submitting poetry for publication in 1979, and became a member of the Ina Coolbrith Poetry Circle in Berkeley, California. He has toured with other poets in Spain (1999) and Cuba (2000), and been a featured reader throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, in Los Angeles and Vancouver B.C. He continues to write and perform in English and Spanish.
John Johnson’s poems have appeared in many print and online journals. He is co-translator, with Terry Ehret and Nancy J. Morales, of Plagios/Plagiarisms, the poetry of Ulalume González de León, winner of the 2021 Northern California Book Award for poetry in translation.
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