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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…

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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…

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: from unincorporated territory [hacha] (Tinfish Press, 2008)…

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 in Latin American Studies from UNAM…