Book Club: Grana Cochinilla

Ulises González was born in Lima. He has participated as a narrator in the following anthologies: Incurables (Ars Communis, 2020), Escritorxs Salvajes (Hypermedia, 2019), Cuentos de ida y vuelta (Peisa, 2019), Hispanic States of America (Sudaquia, 2016), Casa crazy (Paroxysm, 2015). He has been a correspondent for La Opinión in A Coruña and El Comercio in Lima. He writes the weekly Newyópolis blog for FronteraD magazine. He is a member of the Lehman College CUNY (Bronx) School of Journalism and Media Studies (JMS).

Marta Ana Diz was born in Buenos Aires and lives in New York. She is a professor of medieval literature, philology, and history of language, rhetoric, and literary theory . She published two books (on Count Lucanor, in 1984, and on the Miracles of Berceo and the Marian cult of the 13th century, in 1995) and thirty essays on medieval texts. In 2018, she was one of five poets invited to read her poetry at the closing ceremony of the prestigious Barcelona International Poetry Festival, held at the Palau de la Música. The last four of her collections of poems received international poetry prizes.

Isabel Díaz Alanís is a writer from Monterrey who lives in Philadelphia. She has a doctorate in Hispanic Studies from the University of Pennsylvania and has contributed to Letras Libres and El País. Since April 2020, she has co-hosted Inventario, a podcast about literature and friendship with the writer Sylvia Aguilar Zéleny. The podcast is made in collaboration with Revista Este País. Her chronicle, No One Is Home (Spring 2022), recounts a summer trip during a difficult time in the author's life.

Dejanira Álvarez’s is part of the founding team of FEVINO, the most prominent Mexican Wine Festival in Mexico outside of Ensenada, and FILMINIST, the first women's film festival in the industry that had its first edition in September 2021. She is the founder of Las Mimosas literary circles, a space focused on promoting women's literature, and Grana Cochinilla, which seeks to promote literature written in Spanish in the United States, the latter in partnership with the Mexican Cultural Institute of New York. She is currently a full-time entrepreneur; among her ventures, the following stand out: Sivarya, La Gastrofilia, So What Sports, and Mexiculinary.