Bios
Laura Fuentes Belgrave
Laura Fuentes Belgrave is a journalist, sociologist, cultural advocate, and writer. She holds a degree in comunicación colectiva from the University of Costa Rica with an emphasis in journalism, a degree in sociology, a master’s in Latin American studies from Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris III, and a doctorate in sociology from École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS, Paris). She has been widely published in journals and anthologies in Costa Rica, Mexico, Guatemala, and France. She is the author of three books: Penumbra de la paloma (1999), Cementerio de cucarachas (2006), and Antierótica feroz (2013). She works as a professor and researcher at both National University and the University of Costa Rica.
Lina M. Ferreira C.-V.
Lina M. Ferreira C.-V. earned MFAs in creative nonfiction writing and literary translation from The University of Iowa. She is the author of Drown Sever Sing from Anomalous Press and Don’t Come Back from Mad River Books, as well as editor, with Sarah Viren, of the forthcoming anthology Essaying the Americas. Her fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and translation work has been featured in journals including Bellingham Review, Chicago Review, Fourth Genre, Brevity, Poets & Writers, and The Sunday Rumpus, among others. She won Best of the Net and Iron Horse Review’s Discovered Voices Award, has been nominated for two Pushcart Prizes, and is a Rona Jaffe fellow. She moved from Colombia to China to Columbus, Ohio to Richmond, Virginia, where she works as an assistant professor for Virginia Commonwealth University. Visit www.linawritesessays.com.
Copyright (c) Laura Fuentes Belgrave. English translation copyright (c) Lina M. Ferreira C.-V., 2018.