Leo Boix is a bilingual Latinx poet born in Argentina, based in the UK. His debut English collection, Ballad of a Happy Immigrant (Chatto &Windus, 2021), was a Poetry Book Society Wild Card Choice and named one of The Guardian’s best five poetry books of 2021. His second English collection, Southernmost: Sonnets, was publishedin June 2025. He has also published two Spanish collections in Argentina and edited HemisferioCuir, an anthology of young queer Latin American poets (2025). A fellow of The Complete Works, Boix co-directs Un Nuevo Sol, serves on the Poetry Translation Centre and Magma Poetry boards, and contributes a monthly literary column to The Morning Star. His awards include the Bart Wolffe Poetry Prize, Keats-Shelley Prize, PEN Award, and the Society of Authors’ Foundation grant.
Nathalie was born in Buenos Aires and has a PhD in Latin American poetry (Kings College). She is of a multi-cultural background and has worked promoting inclusivity in British literature and arts for thirty years. She is a widely published critic, essayist and editor/mentor as well as making dance poetry films.
In 2024 she was shortlisted for a Sky Arts Award and is also an honorary fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She is currently writing an experimental life writing novella and a novel set in the tango world of Buenos Aires in 1900.
Karina Lickorish Quinn is a Peruvian-British writer and a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Royal Holloway University of London. Her debut novel The Dust Never Settles (Oneworld, 2021) explored Peru’s hauntedness by its colonial past. Her second book, a novella called The House of Skin (Stanchion, 2023) is a work of literary horror. Her second novel, The River Dies Quietly, will be published by Oneworld in 2026/2027. Her short prose has been published widely including in Wasafiri, The White Review, The Offing, Palabritas, and the Journal of Latina Critical Feminism. She was featured in Un Nuevo Sol, the first major anthology of British-Latinx writers. Karina is currently editing a special issue of Wasafiri on British Latinx writing and has begun working on her third novel.
Mónica Ibarra Parle considers herself “gente puente”, after a childhood shuttling between the concreted bayous of southeast Texas and her grandparents’ house in the Chihuahuan desert. She’s a fourth-generation immigrant, now living in the UK. Mónica is a member of the Macondo Writers’ Workshop. She won the 2022 Mslexia Short Story Competition and was short-listed for the 2024 and 2021 Bridport Peggy Chapman First Writing Awards and the 2021 Wasafiri Queen Mary Prize. Her work was Highly Commended in Faber’s 2018 Fab Prize, and she has published short fiction in Best Women’s Short Fiction 2022, The Bridport Prize Anthology (2021 and 2024),Mslexia, and Wasafiri. She is Co-Executive Director of Forward Arts Foundation (the Forward Prizes and the UK’s National Poetry Day), Co-Chair of the Poetry Translation Centre board and a member of the World of Books Foundation board.
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