María Miranda (Arequipa, Perú 1986) studied literature at the Universidad Nacional de San Agustín where she encountered the work of artists that shaped her writing. She did her masters in Latin American literature at Universidad de Buenos Aires and received her doctorate from Yale University. Both spaces and the people in them transformed her interaction with the literary. Throughout those years she dedicated herself to investigating the work of Mexican baroque writer Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, a passion that ended up taking her to live in Mexico City. Although her interest in the academic has continued in a latent sense, her project focuses, above all, on the vital act of writing. To date she has published four books of essays and poetry: Romané (2005), Los velos de la derrota (2009), La Creación del Silencio (2014) and Charchas o Parábola sobre el vacío (2021). In 2022, in collaboration with the musician Jorge Martínez Valderrama, she developed the sound-poetry project Sueño 11, which will form part of her next book Agua sostenida.
Jacqui Cornetta is an interdisciplinary artist working with text and sound. Their poetry, translations, essays, and music projects have appeared in The Offing, Circumference, Words Without Borders, Lost & Found: CUNY Poetics Documents Initiative, Centro Botín, The Puerto Rico Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, and on stages nationwide.
