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Ignacio Magaloni, a member of the Macondo Writers Workshop, has read his poems at the San Antonio Poetry Festival, The McNay Art Museum, the Floricanto Reading Series at Centro Cultural Aztlán, and at National Poetry Month events at Mitchell Lake Audubon Center.Magaloni coordinated poetry events at Bihl Haus Arts and at Northwest Vista College, where he co-founded the Trinidad Sanchez Art and Poetry Festival with another Macondista, Natalia Treviño. He’s also been a writer-in-residence at local Middle Schools for Gemini Ink’s Writers in Communities Program.Published in magazines such as The Texas Observer, his poetry accompanied a triptych for a Nature Conservancy photography exhibit at the Blue Star Arts Complex, and he appears in the anthology of Texas poets and painters “Is This Forever or What?” edited by Naomi Shihab Nye.  Ignacio Magaloni teaches literature and writing at Northwest Vista College.

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Trey Moore (writer/artist) was born in San Antonio.  Performing in his hometown at art and writing events across the country including, Nuyorican Poet’s Café, Pumpkins Jazz Club (NYC), and the Great Mother Conference.  Recent recipient of a Puffin Foundation and a Prague Summer Program Scholarship, he teaches poetry in public schools, libraries, shelters, and juvenile detention centers.  His poems and stories have appeared in Texas Observer, Borderlands, Exquisite Corpse, Origami Condom, Santa Fe Writer's Project, and TO Topos.  Winner of the Whitebird Chapbook Contest, his collection, we forget we are water, was published by Wings Press in 2006 and positively reviewed by Red Wheelbarrow (UK, 2008).  Some Will Play The Cello was published by St. Mary’s University’s Pecan Grove Press in January 2010.

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Pablo Miguel Martínez’s work has appeared in numerous publications, including Americas Review, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, BorderSenses, Comstock Review, Harpur Palate, Inkwell, La Voz de Esperanza, New Millennium Writings, North American Review, and the San Antonio Express-News. He is a frequent contributor to the San Antonio Current. In 2009 he received the Robert L.B. Tobin Award for Artistic Excellence, and the Literary Arts Award from the Artist Foundation of San Antonio. In 2007 he received the Oscar Wilde Prize. Martínez was awarded the prestigious Chicano/Latino Literary Prize in 2005. His literary work has also received support from the Alfredo Cisneros Del Moral Foundation.  He holds an MFA degree in Creative Writing from Texas State University-San Marcos.