Palp/ Antenna/ Tentaculary

Jamila Medina Ríos (Holguin, 1981) is a poet, prose writer, essayist, and editor. She won the coveted David Prize in 2009 with her first book of poetry, and a collection of her essays received the prestigious Alejo Carpentier Prize in 2012. A book of short stories as well as another of poetry, has appeared in Mexico. A former poetry editor for Unión Publishers, she lives in Havana.

Katherine M. Hedeen is the poetry in translation editor for the Kenyon Review and the associate editor of Action Books.  She is a two-time recipient of a NEA Translation Project Grant, she is a professor of Spanish at Kenyon College.

Víctor Rodríguez Núñez is one of Cuba's most outstanding contemporary writers. He has published more than thirty books of poetry throughout Latin America and Europe and has received major awards all over the Spanish-speaking world. He divides his time between Gambier, Ohio, where he is professor of Spanish at Kenyon College, and Havana, Cuba.