Pedro was born in 1963 in the municipality of Buctzotz, Yucatán. He is a Maya Indigenous person, the child of monolingual Maya farmers. He is a founding member of the Assembly of Defends of Maya Land, Múuch Xíimbal. He writes in Maya…

Craig Santos Perez is a native Chamoru (Chamorro) from the Pacific Island of Guåhan/Guam. He is the co-founder of Ala Press, co-star of the poetry album Undercurrent (Hawai’i Dub Machine, 2011), and author of three collections of poetry: from unincorporated territory [hacha] (Tinfish Press, 2008)…

My original name is Tiko’u (Little Burning Firewood) and I am a descendant of the Epinayuu e’irukuu (clan). I am a poet and writer from Manaure (La Guajira, Colombia)…

Renee Gurneau is an enrolled member of the Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians… Tom B.K. Goldtooth is the Executive Director of the Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN)…

Yana Luci Lema is a Kichwa teacher and poet from Otavalo (Ecuador). Author and compiler of several bilingual poetry collections and anthologies. Her poems have been translated into English, Italian, French and Korean….

In Quechua, Wiñay Mallki’s name means “root that remains through time.” He is a Quechua poet and oralitor from the Yanakuna nation, located in the Yurak Mayu territory in southern Cauca, Colombia