Liz Rose translates from Spanish and Portuguese and is a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Pennsylvania, where they research Black feminist theories, trans theories, and contemporary cultures of the Americas.
Iliana Rosabal-Pérez is a poet, essayist, and researcher born in Santiago de Cuba in 1970. She earned a degree in Hispanic Philology in 1993 and a master’s degree in Cuban and Caribbean Studies in 2004 from the Universidad de Oriente in Santiago de Cuba. She holds a double major in Spanish and Digital Film Production, with a minor in Communication Studies from Wayne State College. Iliana has published the poetry collections Escrituras del límite (Scriptures of the Limit, Santiago de Cuba, 2007) and Lluvia en las dunas (Rain on the Dunes, Houston, TX, 2019), as well as the artistic essay “Seven Sculptors of Santiago de Cuba” (Trinidad and Tobago, 2010). Currently, she is a Spanish Graduate Teaching Assistant at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
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