This Tangled Body (Paperback or Softback)

Carmen Calatayud is the daughter of immigrants: A Spanish father and Irish mother. Her book In the Company of Spirits, published by Press 53, was a runner-up for the Academy of American Poets Walt Whitman Award and a finalist for the Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared in journals such as Anti-Heroin Chic, Cutthroat, Gargoyle, OyeDrum, PoetLore, Rogue Agent, Tahoma Literary Review and Verse Daily, and in numerous anthologies. She is a Larry Neal Poetry Award winner, a Best of La Bloga winner and a Virginia Center for the Creative Arts fellow. She lives in San Antonio, Texas.

Aydee Lopez Martinez is a painter and ceramic artist based in Covina, California. She has a bachelor's degree in fine art from California State University-Los Angeles. Her work has been shown throughout California, in Arizona, and in New York, Chicago and Juarez, Mexico. In addition to painting and ceramics, she creates works with mosaic glass and natural stones. She has illustrated several children's books, and her work appears on the covers of several poetry and short story books. Visit aydeeart.com.