Keith Ekiss is a Jones Lecturer in Creative Writing at Stanford University. He is the author of Pima Road Notebook (New Issues Poetry & Prose, 2010) and co-translator, with Sonia P. Ticas and Mauricio Espinoza, of two works by the Costa Rican poet Eunice Odio, Territory of Dawn: The Selected Poems of Eunice Odio (The Bitter Oleander Press, 2016) and The Fire’s Journey, an epic poem in four volumes (Tavern Books, 2019). He is the past recipient of scholarships and residencies from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Squaw Valley Writers’ Conference, Millay Colony for the Arts, Santa Fe Art Institute, and the Petrified Forest National Park.

Sonia P. Ticas is professor of Spanish in the Global Languages and Cultural Studies Department at Linfield University where she devotes herself to teaching and research and coordinates the Spanish and Latinx Studies programs. Having received various grants to conduct research in El Salvador, she has published a number of articles on literature and feminism in El Salvador during the first half of the 20^th century in international journals. Since 2001, she has collaborated with Keith Ekiss and Mauricio Espinoza on the extensive translation project that has resulted in the dissemination of the poetry of the Costa Rican writer, Eunice Odio (1919-1974) in English. Four volumes of her epic poem, El tránsito de fuego have been published under the title The Fire’s Journey (Tavern Books, 2013, 2015, 2018 and 2019) and chosen poems published in Territory of Dawn (The Bitter Oleander, 2016). Sonia Ticas also contributed to a bilingual anthology entitled Teatro bajo mi piel/Theater Under my Skin(Kalina, 2014) translating poems by William Archila.

Mauricio Espinoza, Costa Rican writer and translator. He is assistant professor of Latin American literature and cultural studies at the University of Cincinnati. He has published Respiración de piedras (2016), which received the 2015 Poetry Prize by the University of Costa Rica Press. His poems also appear in The Wandering Song: Central American Writing in the United States (Tía Chucha Press, 2017). He is co-translator of Territory of Dawn (Bitter Oleander Press, 2016) and The Fire’s Journey (Tavern Books, 2013-2018), translations of the work of Costa Rican poet Eunice Odio. His translations into Spanish of the work of José B. González and Lorena Duarte were published in Theatre Under My Skin: Contemporary Salvadoran Poetry (Kalina, 2014). His translations into English of Costa Rican poet Randall Roque are forthcoming from ArtePoética Press.