Pablo Simonetti, writer (Santiago de Chile, 1961). An engineer by profession, he has been writing short stories and novels since 1996. In 1999 he published Vidas vulnerables (Vulnerable Lives), which received a special mention in the Municipal Literature Prize in Santiago de Chile. In 2004, he published Madre que estás en los cielos (Mother in Heaven), a novel that was widely acclaimed in Chile and throughout Latin America, both by the public and by critics, and translated into several languages. This was followed by La razón de los amantes (2007), La barrera del pudor (2009) and La soberbia juventud (2013). In 2014, she published the short novel Garden, which was made into a play by Emilia and Héctor Noguera in 2016. His two most recent novels are Desastres naturales (2017) and Los hombres que no fui (2021). For eleven years he has directed the prestigious ‘Workshop for Future Writers’, sponsored by the Finis Terrae University. He is founder, former president and current board member of Fundación Iguales, an NGO dedicated to advancing the rights of LGBTIQ+ people.

Gabriela Wiener, writer and journalist (Lima, Peru, 1975). She has published the books Sexografías, Llamada perdida, Nueve Lunas, Huaco retrato, Dicen de mí and the poetry collections Ejercicios para el endurecimiento del espíritu and Una pequeña fiesta llamada eternidad. His first stories were published in the narrative journalism magazine Etiqueta Negra. She was a columnist for the New York Times in Spanish, editor-in-chief of Marie Claire Spain and a contributor to a large number of international media. She publishes a weekly column for publico.es. She won the National Journalism Award in her country with a report on a case of gender violence. She is the creator of several performances which she has staged with her family. She wrote and starred in the play Qué locura enamorarme yo de ti. She is part of @Sudakasa, a collective project of migrant art and writing. Undiscovered, the English translation of his novel Huaco retrato, was a finalist for the International Booker Prize 2024 and PEN America.

Felipe Restrepo Pombo, writer, editor and journalist (Bogotá, Colombia, 1978). In 2017 he was selected as one of the best writers under forty in Latin America. He is the author of six novels translated into different languages, the latest of which is Ceremonias, published in 2021. In the same year he received the Simón Bolívar National Journalism Prize in Colombia. He is coordinator of the Anagrama Chronicle Prize and editor of the collection of the same name. He has collaborated with dozens of international media and has given writing workshops in the United States, Spain, Mexico and Latin America. He is an occasional columnist for El País and Letras Libres. He was director of the Mexican magazine Gatopardo for six years.

Boris Izaguirre, writer (Caracas, Venezuela, 1965). His name has been part of Spanish-language literature and television for more than three decades. He has written scripts for historical soap operas such as La dama de rosa (Venezuela, 1986) and has been a collaborator and scriptwriter for television programmes such as Crónicas Marcianas (Spain, 1997-2005). Presenter of Prodigios (Spain, 2018, 2019, 2021) and Lazos de Sangre (Spain, 2018-2020), he received the Joan Ramón Mainat award for his career at the FesTVal de Vitoria in 2020. Since 2011, he has published a weekly column in the newspaper El País entitled ‘La paradoja y el estilo’. Since 2017, he has also published a column every Sunday in El Nuevo Herald of Miami entitled ‘600 words’. In 2007, his novel Villa Diamante was a finalist for the Planeta Prize and was very well received by readers. His other novels include Un jardín al norte, Dos monstruos juntos, Y de repente fue ayer, 1965, Azul petróleo and El vuelo de los ostriches. He is also the author of the essays Morir de glamour, Verdades alteradas, Fetiche and El armario secreto de Hitchcock. Tiempo de tormentas, published in 2018, is his latest novel.

Pablo Simonetti, writer (Santiago de Chile, 1961). An engineer by profession, he has been writing short stories and novels since 1996. In 1999 he published Vidas vulnerables (Vulnerable Lives), which received a special mention in the Santiago de Chile Municipal Literature Prize. In 2004, he published Madre que estás en los cielos (Mother in Heaven), a novel that was widely acclaimed in Chile and throughout Latin America, both by the public and by critics, and translated into several languages. This was followed by La razón de los amantes (2007), La barrera del pudor (2009) and La soberbia juventud (2013). In 2014, she published the short novel Garden, which was made into a play by Emilia and Héctor Noguera in 2016. His two most recent novels are Desastres naturales (2017) and Los hombres que no fui (2021). For eleven years he has directed the prestigious ‘Workshop for Future Writers’, sponsored by the Finis Terrae University. He is founder, former president and current board member of Fundación Iguales, an NGO dedicated to advancing the rights of LGBTIQ+ people.

Evening performance by actor, theatre director and writer Taylor.

Alejandro Córdova ‘Taylor’, writer and performer (El Salvador, 1993). Author of Taylored in the dark / confeccionado a oscuras (Ojo de cuervo, 2024) and Lugares comunes (Índole editores, 2019). In Argentina, he graduated from the MA in Playwriting at the National University of the Arts (UNA) and had contact with the Kiki Ballroom scene in Buenos Aires. He is a founding member of Proyecto Dioniso, a Salvadoran theatre company. In El Salvador, he was named Grand Master in Short Stories for having won the Juegos Florales three times. He won the VI Premio Centroamericano Carátula de Cuento Breve, of the Festival Centroamérica Cuenta.

Liliana Hueso, photographer, teacher, producer and activist (Los Angeles, 1976). A Mexican-American citizen, she defines herself as a ‘butch lesbian’. She holds a BA in Communication Sciences from ITESO-Guadalajara and an MA in Photography Management from IBERO-Tijuana. Her work gives visibility to excluded groups, especially focusing on women and the LGBTIQ+ community. In 2022 she was awarded first prize at the XII Bienal de Fotografía de Baja California, with her project ‘En casa’, and in April 2024 she showed her first independent exhibition at CECUT Centro Cultural Tijuana, entitled Lenchas y marimachas.

Gonza Gallego, photographer (Puertollano, Spain, 1991). Photographer from La Mancha based in Madrid. He became known thanks to LONELY, his first series of homoerotic nudes, which he expanded to more explicit scenes with NOT LONELY, in which he uses the male body as an expression of multiple affective and sexual relationships. A graduate in Audiovisual Communication from the Complutense University of Madrid, he has been able to exhibit his photographs in places such as Madrid, Barcelona, Malaga, Miami and Luxembourg.

María Mínguez Arias, narrator and essayist (Madrid, Spain) is the author of Nombrar el cuerpo (2022), chosen among the best LGBTQ+ literature of the year in Spain by Qué Leer magazine; and the novel Patricia sigue aquí (2018), winner of an ILBA award. Her stories, essays and reviews appear in anthologies and magazines in the United States, Spain and Mexico. She is co-editor of #NiLocasNiSolas: An anthology of fiction written by women in the United States (2023) and an active member of #NewLatinoBoom, the Spanish-language writing movement in the United States in the first quarter of the 21st century.

Claudia Salazar Jiménez, writer and essayist (Lima, Peru, 1976). She holds a PhD in Latin American Literature from New York University (NYU) and teaches literature and creative writing at Cal Poly Pomona University. She has edited anthologies such as Voces para Lilith, Escribir en Nueva York and Pachakuti feminista. Her first novel, La sangre de la aurora, was awarded in 2014 with the ‘Las Américas’ prize for Hispanic American Fiction. She has recently published Migrar y otras artes. Escritos fuera de lugar. Her work has been translated into numerous languages. She currently works and lives between Los Angeles and New York City.

Myriam Gurba Serrano, writer (Santa Maria, CA, 1977) Chicana writer. Her stories, short stories and essays have been published in magazines such as Paris Review, Vox, and Belem. such as Paris Review, Vox and Believer, among others, and have also been included in numerous anthologies. She is the author of several books, including Dahlia Season, Painting Their Portraits in Winter, Mean and Creep.

Nando López, novelist and playwright (Barcelona, Spain, 1977). Novelist, playwright and doctor in Hispanic Philology. Author of La edad de la ira, a long-seller that became an international hit series, and novels such as Los elegidos, Presente imperfecto and Hasta nunca, Peter Pan. Winner of the Gran Angular Award 2020 for La versión de Eric and the Arcoíris Award 2023, he is also a renowned author of books for young people (Las durmientes, Algo más que sexo...). He has premiered his theatre internationally and has tackled audiovisual creation at Red Flags (Atresmedia) as a scriptwriter, executive producer and responsible for the original idea.