Moreno Ortiz, Benjamín R.: - Benjamín R. Moreno (Santiago de Querétaro, Mexico, 1980) is the author of Signos de la Amnesia Voluntaria and Tu haz de cuenta que me importa. He received his MFA in Digital Language Arts from Brown University and has been the recipient of over a dozen grants, residency programs and awards. His work as a media artist, located in the intersection of language, sound, code and electronics, has been featured in numerous galleries, festivals, installations and performance venues in Mexico, USA, Spain, Germany, France, Russia, Sweden, Finland, Portugal and the UK. Along with poet Minerva Reynosa, he's a member of the textual visual and technological experimental project BENERVA!
Reynosa, Minerva: - Minerva Reynosa (Monterrey, Mexico. 1979). Poet, instructor, and cultural consultant. She is head of the National Coordination of Literature (CNL) with The National Institute of Fine Arts and Literature (INBAL), an agency of the Ministry of Culture of the Mexican government. She has published the following titles: Una infanta necia (2003); Emötoma (2007) Carmen Alardín 2006 Prize; La íntima de las cosas (2007), Atardecer en los suburbios (2011); Fotogramas de mi corazón conceptual absolutamente ciego (2012); Mammut (video game app, 2015); Mammut & Jinba-Ittai (2019/2024/2025); Larga oda a la salvación de Osvaldo, en co-authored with Sergio Ernesto Ríos (2019); iremos que te pienso entre las filas y el olfato pobre de un paisaje con borrachos o ahorcados (2020/2025) Clemencia Isaura National Poetry Award 2020; Lo mejor que damos. Antología personal (2022); poema de María Galindo intervenido o algunas formas de muerte en la entidad (2025) and este país (2026) Efraín Huerta National Poetry Award 2025. Her poems have been translated into German, English, Swedish, Russian, and French; and she has been published in various countries. Alongside the translator Paula Abramo, she edits Muiraquitã Proyecto Fanzinero de Poesía; a publication of Brazilian contemporary poetry translated into Spanish. She collaborates with Benjamín Moreno in the project of textual, visual, and technological experimentation Benerva! IG: @minerva.reynosa
Villarreal, Stalina Emmanuelle: - Stalina Emmanuelle Villarreal sees, hears, feels, and communicates across mediums and cultures. She's a deep-watching ekphrastic poet, a photographic eco-essayist, a broad-stroke sketch artist, a sonic improv performer, a sound-sensitive literary translator, and an assistant professor of English. Her bilingualism stems from her 1.5-generation experience being both Mexican and Xicanx. Her debut collection of poetry and creative nonfiction is called Watcha (Deep Vellum). Her poetry can be found in the Rio Grande Review, Texas Review, The Acentos Review, Defunkt Magazine, and elsewhere. Her published translations of poetry include Enigmas by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Photograms of My Conceptual Heart Absolutely Blind by Minerva Reynosa, Kilimanjaro by Maricela Guerrero, and Postcards in Braille by Sergio Pérez Torres. Stalina is the recipient of the Inprint Donald Barthelme Prize in Poetry. Her visual poetry-spanning queer erotica, interactive digital art, and video installation-was part of the Antena@Blaffer exhibit at University of Houston's Blaffer Art Museum. She is currently writing ekphrastic elegies about her interpretative drawings of portraits and a memoir about her photographs of nature-revealing her ability to look backward and within, to write new ways forward.
