Jess is a Mexican American / Arab heritage PEN America / Pushcart nominated writer and human rights activist. Her work has been published by the International Human Rights Art Movement, Missing Perspectives, The New Feminist, among others. Her work focuses on the Mexican American experience in America and South Texas, and deals with themes of genocide, immigration, intergenerational storytelling, and transformative justice.

As of August 2026, she writes her own monthly column on The Underground Tribune on Substack, discussing the Trump administration's policy on immigration against Mexican people as genocide. She holds both a BA and an MA in international human rights and conflict resolution.

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Vincent Cooper, former United States Marine and Chicano author of Infidelis (Mouthfeel Press. 2023), was a finalist winner at The International Latino Book Awards in The Juan Felipe Herrera Best Poetry Book Award - Bronze Medal. Cooper also penned, Where the Reckless Ones Come to Die (Aztlan Libre Press 2014), and Zarzamora - Poetry of Survival (out-of- print. 2019). He is a Macondista of the Macondo Writer's Workshop since 2015.

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Zenobia (she/her) has island roots from Barbados and was born in Queens, New York. She has lived in San Antonio for over 15 years with her family and is a poet and dentist. There are no limits to the styles or subjects in her poetry that she is willing to face. Still, she always aims for the heart to remind us of the humanity of our history, to hold on to our empathy for each other, and to encourage us to explore our own individual passions—especially in these times of political unrest and injustice. She just completed a Black History presentation series she created, commissioned by the San Antonio Public Library. She has small collections of her work published about identity in Black Butterfly: Voices of the African Diaspora, erotic poetry published in St. Pete’s Neptune Magazine, sonnets in All the World’s a Page, and a ghazal in a forthcoming issue of Jelly Bucket for Reading. She is the 2025 Grand Prize Winner of the Mosaics African Diaspora Award from Kinsman Publishing and received Honorable Mention for her gothic poetry published with the Dark Poets Club. You can find her projects on her website, www.zenobiapoetry.com, or on Instagram @zenobiapoetry26.