Tyrone Aragon is a Nicaraguan writer, medical doctor and medical researcher. He was awarded with The Ancinas Scholarship to attend the 56th Community of Writers Summer Workshop in Olympic Valley, CA. (2026). Finalist of the Miami Book Fair Emerging Writers Fellowship (2025). Fellow of the International Writing Program (IWP), Emerging Voices / Mentorship Program (2024) from the University of Iowa. He is currently a graduate student of the MFA in Spanish Creative Writing. His research focus on the illness narratives.

Rodrigo Bacigalupe Echevarría is a Uruguayan writer, scholar, and professor. He is currently an Iowa Arts Fellow in the MFA in Spanish Creative Writing at the University of Iowa. His poetry has received the First Prize in the Intendencia de Colonia Literary Competition for Cuaderno celeste (2023) and the Carlos Martínez Moreno First Prize in Poetry (2014).

Inma Benedito is a writer and a journalist from Spain. She owns a Double Degree in Journalism and Film Studies at Carlos III University of Madrid, and specialized in economic journalism at UIMP. As a writer, she has published Too match (Plaza & Janés, 2025) and is currently pursuing an MFA in Spanish Creative Writing at the University of Iowa. Her work has appeared in outlets such as El Mundo and Vogue, and she has worked at Expansión and Business Insider for a decade as a financial journalist. She speaks Spanish, English, Portuguese and French.

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

Marisa Cid Torralba is a Graduate Teaching Assistant in Spanish at the University of Iowa. She holds a BA in Hispanic Philology from the University of Salamanca, an MA in Secondary Education from the University of Girona, and an MA in Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language from UNIR.

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 master’s in Digital Communications and Media Arts from DePaul University, Chicago. She is the founder and director of the literary magazine Digopalabra.txt and the web-research project #PoetasVenezolanas.

Elías Lilienfeld Quevedo is a Bolivian writer and journalist pursuing an MFA in Spanish Creative Writing at the University of Iowa, where he is a Graduate Teaching Assistant and was previously an Iowa Arts Fellow. He holds a BA in Journalism from the University of Houston and is a two-time recipient of the Houston Association of Hispanic Media Professionals Scholarship. He is the author of the poetry collection Poemas de Amor y Sal (Editorial La Glorieta, 2024), and his poetry and journalism have appeared in publications in the United States and Latin America.

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.

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

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

Ánderson Villalba is a Colombian writer and journalist. He holds a BA in Spanish and Literature from the Universidad Industrial de Santander and an MA in Journalism from Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá. He is currently pursuing an MFA in Spanish Creative Writing at the University of Iowa.

Rachel Wagle is a second year PhD student in Hispanic Linguistics in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese.