Carl-Michael Edenborg (b. 1967) is an author and a historian of ideas. He also operates the literary press Vertigo, which has published such writers as Nikanor Teratologen, Dennis Cooper, Unica Zürn, Marquis de Sade and Samuel Delany.

Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on August 17, 1891, Oliverio Girondo studied and traveled widely in Europe as a young man, serving as a European correspondent for Argentine literary magazines including Plus ultra and Caras y caretas and establishing close friendships with writers and artists who introduced him to surrealism and other vanguard movements. Among Girondo's circle of friends and influences throughout his life were Blaise Cendrars, Salvador Dalí, Macedonio Fernandez, and Frederico Garcia Lorca, as well as Rafael Alberti and Pablo Neruda, both of whom dedicated poems to him.

His first book, Veinte poemas para ser leidos en un tranvia, was published by a small French press in 1922, and Calcomanias was published in Span in 1925. He belonged to Argentine ultaist vanguard, which also included Jorge Luis Borges, and returned to Argentina in 1924 to cofound the ultraist magazine Martín Fierro, for which he wrote the manifesto. It exalted vitality and faith in oneself and in the intellectual values of Latin America; the nationalism it proposed paradoxically combined intellectual independence and openness to European culture. Espantapajaros (1932), Interlunio (1937), and Persuasion de los días (1942) were all published in Buenos Aires. Ultraism started to dissolve in 1927; Espantapajaros begins with a questioning of the referential function of language and a declaration of nihilism, elements that would continue in his work and culminate in En la masmédula.

In 1943, Girondo married fellow writer Norah Lange, and during the mid-1940s their house in Buenos Aires served as a meeting place for the younger literary generation, including Francisco Madariaga, Enrique Molina, Olga Orozco, and Aldo Pellegrini. Girondo and Lange were so close that Moline coined the term "Noroliverio" to refer to the couple. In 1946 Girondo published Campo nuestro, a single long poem. The first poems that would constitute En la masmédula were published by Aldo Pellegrini in the magazine Letra y linea in 1953, and the definitive edition appeared in 1956. Widely considered his greatest work, En la masmédula closes the Latin American modernist tradition begun in the 1920s and simultaneously opens the door to more recent experimentalism. In 1961, Girondo was injured in a car accident which left him with diminished faculties. He died in Buenos Aires on January 24, 1967.

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Lara Glenum is the author of four books of poetry: POP CORPSE (Action Books, 2013), MAXIMUM GAGA (Action Books, 2009), THE HOUNDS OF NO (Action Books, 2005) and the forthcoming ALL HOPPED UP ON FLESHY DUMDUMS (Spork Editions, 2013).

She is also the co-editor, with Arielle Greenberg, of GURLESQUE (Saturnalia Books, 2010), an anthology of contemporary women's poetry and visual art. She is the previous recipient of a Fulbright grant and an NEA Translation Fellowship (with Josef Horacek).

In 2009, she collaborated on the video and sculptural installation MEAT OUT OF THE EATER (Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, NY). The main video feed from this installation can be viewed here. Her poems and critical writing have appeared in New American Writing, Fence, Jacket, Conjunctions, The Denver Quarterly and elsewhere. She teaches poetry, multimedia art, translation theory, performance/collaborative art, and classes on international Modernism and the historical Avant-Garde in the MFA program at LSU, where she curates several reading series.

"Her words blur and hiss like a radio not quite tuned right but you can't turn it off because they're saying things you've never heard or imagined before. These poems make even your weirdest dreams seem boring." - Kevin Sampsell

Tytti Heikkinen (b. 1969) is a Finnish poet. She has studied comparative literature and Finnish literature at the University of Helsinki, and her poems have been translated to Russian, French, and Italian.

María Negroni (b. 1951, Argentina) has published twelve books of poetry, five collections of essays, and two novels and her work has been awarded numerous prizes. She received a Guggenheim fellowship for poetry in 1994, a Rockefeller Foundation fellowship in 1998, the Fundación Octavio Paz fellowship for poetry in 2001, and The New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship in 2005. She also received a National Book Award for her collection of poems El viaje de la noche, a PEN Award for ISLANDIA as best book of poetry in translation, New York 2001, and the Siglo XXI International Prize for Nonfiction for her book Galería Fantástica. She has taught at Sarah Lawrence College since 1999.

Translator Michelle Gil-Montero is a poet and translator of contemporary Latin American poetry. She is the translator of Poetry After the Invention of América: Don't Light the Flower by Chilean writer Andrés Ajens (Palgrave MacMillan, 2011) and The Tango Lyrics by María Negroni (Quattro Books, coming 2013). Attached Houses, a chapbook of poems, is coming from Brooklyn Arts Press in 2013. Her poems have appeared in Spoon River Poetry Review, Colorado Review, Third Coast, Cincinatti Review, and other journals. She is a graduate of Brown University and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She lives in Pittsburgh and is Assistant Professor of English at Saint Vincent College.