Sara Poot Herrera

Sara Poot Herrera estudió en la Escuela Normal Rural de Atequiza, Jalisco. Egresada de la Universidad de Guadalajara, doctora en literatura hispánica por El Colegio de México y profesora del Departamento de Español y Portugués de la Universidad de California, Santa Bárbara (UCSB), en donde es Distinguished Professor, y ha dirigido 35 tesis de doctorado. Es cofundadora y directora de UC-Mexicanistas, asociación internacional de escritores y especialistas en estudios mexicanos dentro y fuera de México; es miembro correspondiente (por Mérida, Yucatán) de la Academia Mexicana de la Lengua, e integrante de la Cátedra Alfonso Reyes.
A partir de la obra de Juan José Arreola, lee a los escritores del siglo XX y lo que va del XXI. Lee y estudia la obra multidimensional de Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz y sigue la genealogía literaria femenina (pasada y futura) legada por la monja jerónima. Entre libros, ediciones, coediciones, capítulos de libros, ensayos, artículos, notas, reseñas de libros y textos de creación, cuenta con más de 300 publicaciones. 
Como sus distinciones más recientes, en 2021 recibió la Presea Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, que otorga la Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana, y en 2024 la Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán le otorgó el Doctorado Honoris causa. Ha organizado innumerables congresos internacionales, binacionales y nacionales.
 

Other activities involving the participant:

Land and memory: Reconstructing history
Session 14
FILEY Invitation and José Emilio Pacheco Excellence in Literature Award (2026). Session 15
Julieta Fierro: a forever star

Marisol Schulz Manaut

Marisol Schulz Manaut is an editor, commentator, speaker, cultural journalist, and expert in the literary and publishing world. She has received multiple recognitions for her work promoting reading and advocating for the future of books and the Spanish language.

For the past twelve years, she has served as the director of the Guadalajara International Book Fair, considered the most important Spanish-language book fair and one of the most significant in the world. Under her leadership, FIL Guadalajara has received several awards, including the prestigious Princess of Asturias Award in the area of Communication and Humanities, shared with the Hay Festival; the Order of Rio Branco from Brazil; and recently, the Sor Juana Medal, a recognition granted by the Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana in Mexico.

She also directs the Los Angeles Spanish Language Book Fair and Literary Festival, an ambitious program aimed at promoting books and reading in Spanish in the United States, founded in 2011.

For over four decades, Marisol Schulz has focused on the book and reading sector, leading editorial areas in various public and private organizations, such as the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and the Center for Research and Higher Studies in Social Anthropology (CIESAS). She was the editorial director at Plaza y Janés Mexico and spent 17 years at Grupo Santillana, first as executive editor and later as director of the Taurus and Alfaguara imprints in Mexico. She was responsible for the edition of major Ibero-American writers such as Carlos Fuentes, Mario Vargas Llosa, José Saramago, Arturo Pérez Reverte, Elena Poniatowska, Augusto Monterroso, Sergio Ramírez, Carmen Boullosa, Alberto Ruy Sánchez, and Xavier Velasco, among others.

In 2013, the Mexican edition of Forbes recognized her as one of the 50 most powerful women in Mexico. In 2016 and 2020, the magazine Quién named her one of the "50 people who move Mexico." In 2021, she received the National Juan Pablos Award for Editorial Merit, a recognition granted annually by the Mexican Chamber of the Publishing Industry (Cámara Nacional de la Industria Editorial Mexicana).

Other activities involving the participant:

Indigenous Literature Award 2025
Diana Moreno Toscano Latin American Young Poetry Prize 2025
The privilege of turning off the light
The universal humanist
Inauguration
Opening Ceremony
Inter-American Publishers Group Award