Yago S. Cura is an instruction and outreach librarian in Los Angeles, CA. and sole proprietor of Hinchas Press. He's the author of Rubberroom, and a former NYC Teaching Fellow. In 2010, he co-wrote Odas a Futbolistas with Abel Folgar and has completed Postcard Feats with C.S. Carrier and Jim Heavily. Yago's poetry has appeared in PALABRA, Versal, Borderlands, Lungfull!, COMBO, LIT, U.S. Latino Review, 2nd Avenue, Exquisite Corpse, FIELD, and Slope. Yago's reviews have appeared in The St. Mark's Poetry Project Newsletter. His Spanglish blog, Spicaresque, has had more than 29,000 visitors and is constantly updated. His librarian blog, TheShusher, is just getting off the ground. He can be contacted via e-mail at yagoscura@gmail.com.

Jim Heavily worked his way through school during his undergraduate studies at Arizona State University as a pharmacy technician; got thrown out of Brooklyn College for his teaching prowess; &, as a graduate student in the writing program at Columbia University, had the good fortune of working for two years in the basement of the Strand Book Store. He’s taught “rhetoric & composition” at Arizona State University, Chicago State University, Columbia College & DePaul University & is the recipient of an Illinois Arts Council Award for Advancement in Literature. He’s travelled twice through Central America & Mexico (when the Mexican government still subsidized passenger rail service) & spent over a decade in production & operations at the Chicago Tribune. He’s an avid student of Nahuatl & is fascinated by all things Aztec.