Poet-dramatist Cindy Williams Gutiérrez collaborates with artists in theatre, music, and visual art. Her collection, the small claim of bones, is forthcoming from Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingüe (Arizona State University). Poems and reviews have appeared in Borderlands, Calyx, Harvard’s Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, UNAM’s Periódico de poesía, Portland Review, Quiddity, Rain Taxi, and ZYZZYVA. Her plays have been produced by the Miracle Theatre Group and Insight Out Theatre Collective in Portland, Oregon and podcast by Maine Humanities.  She has performed her Aztec-inspired poetry accompanied by pre-Hispanic music at AWP and through Humanities Washington. Cindy earned an MFA from the University of Southern Maine Stonecoast Program with concentrations in Mesoamerican poetics and creative collaboration. She has taught creative writing to adults through the Attic, the Oregon Poetry Association, and the Stonecoast MFA Program, as well as to youth through the Portland Art Museum, Right Brain Initiative, and Writers in the Schools. www.grito-poetry.com   

Originally from Mexico, Gerardo Calderón is an award-winning composer and the musical director of Grupo Condor—Latin American Folk Music and Nuestro Canto. He is also a Drammy-nominated sound designer for ballet and theatre companies. Gerardo has toured throughout the U.S., Canada and Europe with folk ensembles, world music ensembles and choirs, playing a variety of Latin stringed instruments and pre-Hispanic percussion and flute. He studied classical guitar at the Escuela Superior de Música in Mexico City and theory and composition at Portland Community College. His latest CD is “Inspirational Sounds from Latin America: 1.” www.grupo-condor.com