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Florentino Solano is a writer, translator, musician, and farm worker from Metlatónoc, Guerrero, Mexico. He writes in his native language, Tu’un Savi, and translates his own writing into Spanish. In 2021, he received both the Premio de Literaturas Indígenas de América for his chronicle Yaa táxá’á kàà tùxìi (La danza de las balas) and the Premio Nezahualcóyotl de Literatura en Lenguas Mexicanas for his verse collection Tákúu ndi’i tachi si’í yu (Todas las voces de mi madre).

Arthur Malcolm Dixon is lead translator and managing editor of the multilingual literary journal Latin American Literature Today. His translations have been featured in Asymptote, Boston Review, International Poetry Review, Literary Hub, Poesía, Trafika Europe, and World Literature Today. He also works as a community interpreter in Tulsa and has been a Tulsa Artist Fellow since August 2020.