Esc: Tales Left Behind (Paperback or Softback)

Pablo Brescia was born in Buenos Aires and has lived in the United States since 1986. He has published three books of short stories: La derrota de lo real/The Defeat of the Real (USA/Mexico, 2017), Fuera de Lugar/Out of Place (Peru, 2012/Mexico, 2013, USA 2021) and La apariencia de las cosas/The Appearance of Things (México, 1997), and a book of hybrid texts No hay tiempo para la poesía/No Time for Poetry (Buenos Aires, 2011), with the pen name Harry Bimer. He teaches Latin American Literature at the University of South Florida. https: //www.pablobresciapreferirianohacerlo.com

Matthew David Goodwin is an Associate Professor in the Chicana/o Studies Department at the University of New Mexico. His research is centered on Chicanx/Latinx science fiction, immigration, digital culture, pilgrimage, and Critical Mystery Studies. He is a co-editor of the Latinx Archive speculative fiction trilogy: Latinx Rising (Ohio State UP, 2020) Speculative Fiction for Dreamers (Ohio State UP, 2021), and Not Your Papi's Utopia (Mouthfeel Press, 2024). His study The Latinx Files: Race, Migration, and Space (Rutgers UP, 2021) introduces the field of Latinx science fiction and demonstrates how the alien has been reclaimed by Latinx creators. As a co-organizer of the Latinx Visions conference at the University of New Mexico (2023 and 2025), Professor Goodwin collaborates with Cathryn Josephina Merla-Watson, Santiago Vaquera-Vásquez, and Taryne Jade Taylor to analyze, critique, and promote Latinx speculative fiction. He has a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and is an active agent in the Albuquerque office of the very much real Speculative Detective Agency.