Sergio Holas-Véliz was born in the port town Valparaíso in Chile. His poetry has been published in Babab (Spain), Letralia (Venezuela), Arena, Social Alternatives and the Australian Poetry Journal. He has published three poetry books, Distancia cero (Cero Distance), Ciudad dividida (Divided City), and Paisajes en movimiento (Moving Landscapes), all published by Altazor Ediciones. He has also recently published Poetry of the Earth: Mapuche Trilingual Anthology (Interactive Press, 2014), which he translated with Steve Brock and Juan Garrido Salgado. He currently teaches Spanish language and Latin American culture & literature at the University of Adelaide.

Israel Holas Allimant was born in Chile and recently completed his PhD on Roberto Bolaño's polyphonic narrative fiction. Israel has translated poetry by Ennio Moltedo, Nicanor Parra and others from the original Spanish into English. Israel has also worked on translations of the work of contemporary Chinese poet Da Tui, together with Steve Brock. He recently published the book Contrahegemonías: los límites de la política Occidental según el caso de los Zapatistas y los Piqueteros and is currently completing a manuscript about Roberto Bolaño’s writing as part of the vanguardist movement Infrarrealismo.