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The illegitimate child of Eva Peron and Fidel Castro, Guillermo Castro was born and braised in Buenos Aires, Argentina. His work appears in Quarterly West, Court Green, The Bellevue Literary Review, The Brooklyn Rail, Otoliths, Ducts.org, LaFovea.org, EOAGH, Barrow St, La Petite Zine, among others, and the anthologies My Diva, This Full Green Hour, Saints of Hysteria, and more. His translations of Olga Orozco, in collaboration with the Excelente Poeta Ron Drummond, appear in Guernica, U.S. Latino Review and Visions. Castro’s second chapbook, Cry Me a Lorca, is forthcoming from Seven Kitchens Press.

Ron Drummond’s Why I Kick at Night was a Portlandia Press Chapbook Competition winner. He has received writing fellowships from Ragdale Foundation, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Blue Mountain Center, and was one of the founding editors of Barrow Street. His work is represented in the Penguin textbook Literature as Meaning, the anthologies Poetry Nation, Poetry After 9/11, This New Breed, Latin Lovers and Saints of Hysteria, as well as in many literary journals. His translations, in collaboration with Guillermo Castro, have appeared in U.S. Latino Review, Terra Incognita and Guernica. Poems are forthcoming in Borderlands Texas Poetry Review and Bellevue Literary Review.