from “máquina de escribir”

Gerónimo Sarmiento Cruz is a scholar, translator, and poet born in Mexico City and residing in Lexington, KY, on the occupied lands of the Shawnee, Cherokee, Chickasaw, and Osage people. His first book of poetry, whalefall, is forthcoming from Rescue Press in 2026. Other creative writing and translations can be found in Fence, Your Impossible Voice, and Action, Spectacle.

Alicia Barceinas Cruz is a political ecologist living in Lexington, KY. She grew up in Veracruz, Mexico, and likes plants, birds, and bugs.