Francisco Henriquez Rosa was born in Santiago, Dominican Republic, in 1957. He graduated from the Dominican Institute of Journalism in 1979, Hostos Community College in 1984, and City College CUNY in 1993. He has collaborated with WCR radio at City College and his poems have appeared in literary magazines throughout the Dominican Republic, Argentina, New York, and Florida. He won 4th place in the Argentinian Prize for International Poetry. He published a collection of Dominican aphorisms in 2004 and is the founder and director of the Orlando Tertulia.

Ariel Francisco is the author of the forthcoming All the Places We Love Have Been Left in Ruins (Burrow Press, 2024), Under Capitalism If Your Head Aches They Just Yank Off Your Head (Flowersong Press, 2022), and A Sinking Ship is Still a Ship (Burrow Press, 2020), and the translator of Haitian-Dominican poet Jacques Viau Renaud’s Poet of One Island (Get Fresh Books, 2024) and Guatemalan poet Hael Lopez’s Routines/Goodbyes (Spuyten Duyvil, 2022). A poet and translator born in the Bronx to Dominican and Guatemalan parents and raised in Miami, his work has been published in The New Yorker, American Poetry Review, Academy of American Poets, POETRY Magazine, The New York City Ballet, Latino Book Review, and elsewhere. He is Assistant Professor of Poetry and Hispanic Studies at Louisiana State University.