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Laura Xochitl Segura Lira (1993). She studied for a degree in Hispanic Language and Literature at UNAM, and is currently studying for a degree in Pedagogy at the Virtual University of the State of Guanajuato. She specialized in 19th-century Mexican press and literature, as well as in teaching Spanish as a second language. She has worked as a research assistant with Professor Miguel Ángel Castro Medina and with MA Ana Maria Romero Valle. At the moment she works as a Spanish teacher for foreigners in Mexico City. She has been published several times in digital independent magazines. She was worthy of appearing in the anthology Resonancias (2019) edited by the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, and in the album-tribute book to Fernando del Paso (in opinion). In 2021 she managed to self-publish her storybook “Dieta” and currently works independently as a visual artist. She goes under the pseudonyms Xochitl Se’wa and Pánico.

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Claudia Bernal is an interdisciplinary artist and postdoctoral researcher at CELAT, Cultures, Arts, Societies Research Center at the University of Quebec at Chicoutimi. Her artistic practice lies between the visual arts, the living arts and literature. This includes sculpture, engraving, performance, video and sound. She has a Ph.D. in Studies and Practices in the Arts from the University of Quebec in Montreal. She finished her Master’s in Theater Studies and She has a degree in Plastic Arts from the University of Quebec in Montreal. In her work, the concepts of movement, migration, space and identity are recurrent. Bernal has presented solo and group exhibitions, performances, and plays in Tokyo, Vienna, Brussels, Paris, Argentina, Cuba, Mexico, Spain, and Colombia. Claudia Bernal lives and works between Montreal, Chicoutimi and Bogotá.

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José Salvador Armas Ruiz (1988) has a degree in Humanities from the University of Guadalajara. He is a narrator, essayist, editor and professor at the Universidad del Altiplano. He has published the following books: Pelusas Bajo la Cama (Fluff Under the Bed), Ficciones para llevar (Fictions to Take Away) and La jerarquía de las Hormigas (The Ants’ Hierarchy). He was a beneficiary of “El arte nos une 2020”, and winner of the “Programa de Producción Editorial 2020”. He has given workshops on philosophy, reading and speech, literary creation and electronic literature, in various cultural spaces. He had two artistic residencies, one at the TC Howe Academy in Indianapolis USA, and the second at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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Jessica Tremblay is a haiku poet, cartoonist, and digital writer who specializes in generative poetry. Her two books Le Sourire de l’Epouvantail and Les Saisons de l’Epouvantail were published by les Editions David. She received grants from Canada Council for the Arts and British Columbia Arts Council. Her popular haiku-cartoons Old Pond Comics were published in journals in France, US, Canada, and Japan. She was cartoonist-in-residence at several conferences in the United States, and keynote speaker at Haiku Canada. Originally from Quebec, she now resides in British Columbia.

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