GABRIEL CARLE (b. San Juan, 1993) is a writer and academic researching queerness, race, migration, and the environment in Caribbean literatures and cultures. They completed a BA in Escritura Creativa at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, and an MFA in Creative Writing in Spanish at New York University. They are based in New York City.
HEATHER HOUDE is a self-taught visual artist, writer, and translator from Philadelphia. She is the author of Thin Skinned, and her stories and translations have appeared in A Gathering of the Tribes, The Common, Latin American Literature Today, and the Southwest Review.