When you don’t believe in anything you’re left to

Tilsa Otta has published five collections of poems and the queer novel Lxs niñxs de oro de la alquimia sexual (Random House, 2021). A multimedia artist, Otta works across video, illustration, and text. She lives in Mexico and Peru.

Farid Matuk is the author of the poetry collections This Isa Nice Neighborhood (Letter Machine Editions, 2010), The Real Horse (University of Arizona Press, 2018), and the forthcoming Moon Mirrored Indivisible (University of Chicago Press, 2025). Their translations have appeared in Kadar Koli, Bombay Gin Literary Journal, Translation Review, Mandorla, Poetry, and Guernica. They have received fellowships from the Headlands Center for the Arts and United States Artists.