Cecile Goding (M.F.A., University of Iowa Writers Workshop; M.F.A., University of Iowa Program in Nonfiction Writing) teaches poetry, memoir, and other forms of literature at universities and neighborhood centers. Goding’s stories, essays and poems crop up here and there, most recently in Fourth Genre, The Georgia Review, The Iowa Review,  and A Shared Voice (Lamar Univ. Press). The Women Who Drink at the Sea, a chapbook of poems, was published by State Street Press. Also a librettist, Goding collaborated with composer and rock guitarist John Lake on the 2022 premiere of The Machine Stops, an opera based on a 1909 story by E. M. Forster. She makes her home in a cohousing community in Iowa City, Iowa.

Juani Guerra (Juana Teresa Guerra de la Torre) was born in the Canary Islands (Spanish Macaronesia) where she is presently Professor of English Language, Literature, and Culture at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC). Since 2021 she directs the Laboratory of Cognition and Cultural Health, at the Research Institute for Biomedical and Health Sciences (IUIBS-ULPGC). To further strengthen relations between the Humanities, Sciences, and Technologies, Juani Guerra coordinates a Seminar Series on Transversal Thought and Cultural Health focused on social recovering from advanced interdisciplinary knowledge on the literary mind and language as a biocultural niche and a cognitive symbolic artifact. Juani received her PhD in English and Literary Studies from the Complutense University of Madrid, Master Studies in Cognitive Neuroscience at La Laguna University in Tenerife, and in Spanish Literature at the ULPGC. Director of a PhD Program New Cognitive Perspectives Study of Language, Literature and Translation at ULPGC from 2003-2016, she has been invited as Scholar and Lecturer at Oslo U., U. Kent, U. C. Berkeley, Harvard U., U.C. San Diego, Syddansk U., U. Aarhus, and others in Spain. She was a Board Member Executive Committee International Society for the Short Story (2006-18). Her work focuses on the relationship between language, cognition, narrative, and culture, from a biopoetic, cognitive semiotic, and complex dynamic perspective. She is also an active translator of English novelists and short story writers into Spanish. As a literary writer she has published her own short stories in several journals in Spanish and English. She is the mother of two daughters, Claudia and Freiya, and the grandmother of two baby-grand-daughters Carmen and Gloria.