Nurit Kasztelan, an Argentine economist who writes poetry, is a playwright, has a bookstore (Libreria micasa) in her home and is editor of Excursions, an essay publisher. Her books include Movimientos Incorpóreos, Teoremas, Lógica de los accidentes, O amor era um jogo instável and Después. A book of her poems in English in a translation by Maureen Shaughnessy, AWAITING MAJOR EVENTS, is forthcoming from Cardboard House Press.

Emily Toder is the author of the collections Waste (blazeVOX), Beachy Head and Science (Coconut Books), and the chapbooks Brushes With (Tarpaulin Sky), No Land (Brave Men Press), and I Hear a Boat (Duets Books). She lives in New York.