Eloísa De la Parra Blum grew up in México daydreaming and surrounded by the love of her parents and dogs. She studied Hispanic Literatures at the Tec de Monterrey. She worked for a few years as a teacher in Mexico’s Bajío region before traveling to the United States to complete an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Texas-El Paso. The El Paso sunsets inspired her to paint and listen for the music within words. She became disenchanted with the academic world after completing her doctoral studies at the University of Houston, but she has put down roots in Houston, where she had her daughter and recently buried her dog.
Olivia Lott is a translator and literary scholar specializing in Latin American and Latinx poetry and poetics. She is the translator or co-translator of four books of Latin American poetry, the most recent of which—Juan Calzadilla’s The Roof of the Whale Poems (co-translated with Katherine M. Hedeen)—was published in 2023 with University of Wisconsin Press. She is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Yale University.