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PEDRO UC BE

Translated from Spanish by Melissa D. Birkhofer and Paul M. Worley

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

Translated from Spanish by Melissa D. Birkhofer and Paul M. Worley

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…

KIMBERLY bECKER

Translated from Spanish by Melissa D. Birkhofer and Paul M. Worley

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…

RAFAEL MERCADO

Translated from Spanish by Melissa D. Birkhofer and Paul M. Worley

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…

Renee Gurneau & Tom B.K. Goldtooth

Translated from Spanish by Melissa D. Birkhofer and Paul M. Worley

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…

Hubert Matiúwàa

Translated from Spanish by Melissa D. Birkhofer and Paul M. Worley

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…

YANA LUCI LEMA

Translated from Spanish by Melissa D. Birkhofer and Paul M. Worley

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…

Samay pisccok pponccopi muschcoypa - Espíritu de pájaro en pozos de ensueño ©

Wiñay Mallki (Fredy Chikangana)

Translated from Spanish by Melissa D. Birkhofer and Paul M. Worley

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…

Omar Aramayo

Translated from Spanish by Melissa D. Birkhofer and Paul M. Worley

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…

Nolan Schmerk

Translated from Spanish by Melissa D. Birkhofer and Paul M. Worley

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…

Juan G. Sánchez

Translated from Spanish by Melissa D. Birkhofer and Paul M. Worley

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…

Rosa Maqueda Vicente

Translated from Spanish by Melissa D. Birkhofer and Paul M. Worley

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…

Agua Maestra Collective

Translated from Spanish by Melissa D. Birkhofer and Paul M. Worley

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…

Translated from Spanish by Melissa D. Birkhofer and Paul M. Worley

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…

PEDRO UC BE

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

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…

Kimberly Becker

Of mixed descent, including Cherokee, Kimberly L. Becker has five poetry collections: Words Facing East and The Dividings (WordTech Editions), The Bed Book and Bringing Back the Fire (Spuyten Duyvil), and Flight (MadHat Press)…

Rafael Mercado

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 & Tom B.K. Goldtooth

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)…

Hubert Matiúwàa

Hubert Matiúwàa (1986) belongs to the Mè’phàà culture. He earned undergraduate degrees in Philosophy and Letters from the Universidad Autónoma de Guerrero and in Creative Writing from the Universidad Autónoma de la Ciudad de México, and a master’s degree…

Yana Luci Lema

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….

Wiñay Mallki (Fredy Chikangana)

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…

Omar Aramayo

Jesús Omar Aramayo Cordero was born in Yunguyo, Puno, Peru. He is a journalist, librettist, poet, short story writer, composer and performer of traditional Peruvian instruments….

Nolan Schmerk

I am an Anishinaabe storyteller from Northwestern Ontario who recently began exploring the craft of wordsmithing on a full-time basis. In 2022, I was runner up in the CBC/Radio Canada-Superior Morning flash fiction writing competition…

Juan G. Sánchez Martínez

Juan Guillermo Sánchez Martínez was born in Muyquytá/Bogotá, in the Colombian Andes. He coordinates the online multilingual anthology and exhibition Siwar Mayu, A River of Hummingbirds…

Rosa Maqueda Vicente

Rosa Maqueda Vicente is a Hñähñu researcher and facilitator of community workshops. Co-founder of the cultural project Ya Mfeni. As a writer and poet she has received the Estatal Orquídea de Plata Award (2022), Internacional Péndola Dorada Award (2023 and 2022)…