Camila Núñez-Bergsneider is a Historian with a master's in Art History. Her main interest is comics studies, focussing on comic books or graphic novels that propose an alternative approach to history, memory and the construction of individual and collective identities.

Lis Arevalo Hidalgo is a graduate student in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Iowa.

Nicolas Bohorquez is a graduate student in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Iowa.

Miguel Carpio is a graduate student in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Iowa.

Emerson Craig is a PhD Student and Graduate Assistant in Spanish at the University of Iowa.

Oriette D'Angelo is a PhD Candidate in Spanish with a Graduate Certificate in Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies. She holds an MFA in Spanish Creative Writing from the University of Iowa and a masters in Digital Communications and Media Arts from DePaul University, Chicago. She is the founder and director of the literary magazine Digo.palabra.txt and the web-research project #PoetasVenezolanas. Author of the poetry books En mi boca se abrirá la noche (Libero Editorial, 2023); Pájaro que muerde. Diario de Iowa, 2018-2019 (LP5 Editora, 2022); and Cardiopatías (Monte Ávila Editores, 2016; Winner of the Premio para Autores Inéditos by Monte Ávila Editores, 2014. Translated into English by Lupita Eyde-Tucker as Homeland of Swarms and published by co.im.press in 2024). She also compiled the book Amanecimos sobre la palabra (Team Poetero Ediciones, 2017) about young Venezuelan poets. In 2022, she was awarded the Stephen Lynn Smith Memorial Scholarship for Social Justice granted by the Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies. Her research focuses on political and personal trauma representations in contemporary Latin American literature.

Santiago Giralt is a graduate student at the University of Iowa.

Alan Javier Valdez is a graduate student at the University of Iowa.

Rommel Paul Manosalvas is a graduate student at the University of Iowa.

Mónica Quintero Restrepo is a cultural journalist with a Master's degree in Literary Hermeneutics. Her primary interests include poetry, fiction, cultural journalism, and pastry.

Stephani Rodriguez is a graduate student at the University of Iowa.

Abraham Salas is a PhD student and teaching assistant at the University of Iowa.

Judith Santopietro is a Graduate Teaching Assistant at the University of Iowa.

Allison Stickley is a Graduate Teaching Assistant at the University of Iowa.

Ciara Tapanes is a graduate student at the University of Iowa.

Rachel Wagle is a graduate student in the field of Spanish at the University of Iowa.