Ramón García is a first generation Mexican-American poet with two collections, The Chronicles (Red Hen Press, 2015), Other Countries (What Books Press, 2010), and a monograph on the artist Ricardo Valverde (Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2013). The Chronicles was a finalist for the Latino International Book Award for Best Poetry Book in English in 2016. García has published poetry, fiction and scholarly work in a variety of journals, anthologies and museum catalogs. His poetry has appeared in Best American Poetry 1996.
Anthony Seidman is a poet and translator. His collections include Cosmic Weather (Spuyten Duyvil Publishing, 2020), A Sleepless Man Sits Up In Bed (Eyewear Publishing, 2016), Where Thirsts Intersect (The Bitter Oleander Press, 2006). He has translated dozens of poets from the northern border region of Mexico including his translation (with David Shook) of Confetti-Ash: Selected Poems of Salvador Novo (The Bitter Oleander Press, 2015). In 2019, LARB Classics released his translation of A Stab in the Dark by Facundo Bernal (1883-1962) about which U.S. Poet Laureate Emeritus Juan Felipe Herrera wrote, "This book truly changes everything in Latin literature."
