She worked for five years in the magazine industry as a research editor at Hispanic Business and ISLANDS magazines. Currently he is writing an opera about decolonization and the feminine presence in history, to be presented by Orchestra Opera National in Montpellier, France, in the 2023 season.Ĭlaudia Armann has a journalism degree and earned a prestigious Associated Press Minority Internship. He is one of the founders of the project Philibros: a network of street libraries in Spanish for the immigrant community in South Philadelphia. He is the host of Booktitlan radio program and A Doble Espacio podcast. Carlos is the Executive Director of the Mexican Global Network, Philadelphia Chapter.

That same year he was awarded Everyday Genius by Da Vinci Arts Alliance and I Belong Philly in recognition to his leadership through writing and the impact that his work had in the city of Philadelphia. In 2021 he was named the first artist in residence by the Penn Museum. In 2019 he obtained the Poetry Fellowship at Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing. His books Corazón fresco (Sinaí, 2007) África sueño de sombras largas (Ad Zurdum, 2012) Cuentos desde aquí (Ad Zurdum, 2013) and Ella decía ser mi esposa (ERRR, 2014) span the genres of fiction, poetry and memoir. In 2014 he won the II Literary Prize in Spanish from Northeastern Illinois University for the story “Doble Negación.” With “Librero,” he won the Severo Ochoa Micro-Story Contest of the Cervantes Institute library in Chicago.Ĭarlos José Pérez Sámano was born in Mexico City.

He has been part of anthologies of writers who live in the United States and write in Spanish, such as Enviado especial (Suburbano Ediciones), Diáspora (Vaso Roto), Pertenencia and Trasfondos (both of Ars Communis), and Escritorxs Salvajes (Hypermedia). He has published Si me muero, abre estos archivos (Suburbano Ediciones, 2021), The Last New York Times (Katakana Editores, 2020, translated by José Ángel Navejas), El último New York Times (Suburbano Ediciones, 2018), and Play (Ars Communis, 2015). He has worked as an editor, copywriter, proofreader, translator, Spanish teacher, and bookseller. He obtained a Political Science degree from Universidad Central de Venezuela, and he was a professor of Political Communication at the Journalism School of the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello. Luis Alejandro Ordóñez is a Venezuelan writer born in Boston, MA.

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