Amara Moira

(Brazil, 1985)

Amara Moira is a is a writer, transgender, she earned her PhD in theory and literary criticism with a thesis on Ulysses, by James Joyce. She's the author of the books  E se eu fosse puta  (translated to Spanish by Mandacaru Editorial in 2022, in Argentina), where she writes about her experiences as a sex worker, and Neca + 20 Poemetos Travessos  (O Sexo da Palavra, 2021), in which she brings together her poetic creation about LGBTQIA+ experiences and a small version of her monologue in bajubá, the language of Brazilian transgenders (the monologue will be out next year in an extended edition). In addition, the translation of Continuadísimo, by the Argentine transgender writer Naty Menstrual, is in charge and will be released this year in Brazil.

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Itamar Vieira Junior

(Brazil, 1963)
He is the winner of the Leya, Océanos and Jabuti Awards. He was born in Salvador, Bahia. Writer, geographer and a PhD in ethnic and African studies. His novel, Crooked Plow is one of the greatest public and critical successes of Brazilian literature in many decades; it has been translated in more than 20 countries. The book inspired the play  After the Silence (2022), by Christiane Jatahy, award-winning director at the Venice Biennale. He also published the book of short stories Doramar ou a Odisseia, and his most recent novel, Salvar o Fogo.

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Guiomar de Grammont

(Brazil, 1963)

Guiomar de Grammont is a writer, playwright, professor at the Federal University of Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais, and exhibitions and literary events curator.  She has a PhD in Brazilian literature from the University of São Paulo (USP). She has published, among others, Os livros na minha vida, Aleijadinho e o Aeroplano, Sudário (Casa de Las Américas Award, from Cuba) and the novel Palavras Cruzadas (Pen-Clube National Narrative Award 2017), in French, German and Spanish, by the Fondo de Cultura Económica. She was editor of the publishing house Record, and curator of the homage to Brazil at the Paris Book Fair (2015).  She created and coordinates since 2005, the Forum of the Letters of Ouro Preto, in its 18th edition in 2023.  
 
In her psychological and polyphonic novels and plays she addresses the impact of the disappearance of political prisoners, especially from the perspective of women and environmental tragedies such as Mariana's, caused by mining. In the records of the Casa de Las Américas Prize, renowned juries: Davi Arrigucci Júnior, Silviano Santiago and Trinidad Pérez Valdéz wrote:
 
"This text contains stories that reveal to us the qualities of a new and promising female voice in the current panorama of Brazilian letters...”. A fictional universe of remarkable and complex dramatic energy expressed through a dry and concise language.  
Under the narrator's lucid gaze, the ecstasy of love turns into death, into self-destruction, and a pathetic poetry emerges from the bodies that are searching in vain for a unity that is, perhaps, irretrievable.

Ricardo Sánchez Riancho

Es Licenciado en Literatura Latinoamericana por la Universidad Iberoamericana. Ha publicado textos y traducciones en varias revistas y diarios del interior de la república mexicana, Estado Unidos y Portugal.

Fue becario del Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes en múltiples emisiones entre 2006 y 2016 a la cabeza de proyectos para Textofilia Ediciones. Invitado a diversos foros editoriales y curatoriales internacionales en países como España, Argentina, Estados Unidos, Alemania, Turquía, Emiratos Árabes, Brasil, Italia, India, Canadá, Corea y México. Formó parte del Consejo Editorial de Letra en ruta, revista literaria en lengua hispana de Princeton University, New Jersey.

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Between Quebec, the United States and Mexico, the queer and the indie in the three friends