Thania Muñoz D., Managing Editor & Founder
Dr. Thania Muñoz D. is an Associate Professor in the Department of Modern Languages, Linguistics, and Intercultural Communication at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) where she teaches Latin American and Latinx literature and culture, and Spanish for heritage speakers. She received her Ph.D. at the University of California, Irvine in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. She focuses on contemporary Latin American and Latinx immigrant literature, the marginalization of Spanish/Spanglish as vibrant literary languages in the US, border(lands) and memory studies, poetry + translation, and digital storytelling, to explore how immigrant narratives negotiate belonging within the boundaries of the United States and across the Americas. Her writing and translations have appeared in Catafixia, Fence, Firmament, La Bloga, Catedral Tomada, Latin American Literary Review, Hispanófila, & others.
Fabio Chee Madrigal, Design Editor & Founder
Dr. Fabio Chee Madrigal is an independent academic researcher and creative writer. He received his Ph.D. at the University of California, Irvine in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, and his M.A. at the University of Texas, Austin. He identifies as Chicano and as desert fronterizo. His critical research interests involve the study of Latinx and Chicanx subjects in literature and visual media. Dr. Chee Madrigal is invested in exploring issues in Chicanx and Latinx identity formation from a multi-critical perspective including psychoanalysis and popular culture studies. His poetry and short stories have appeared in literary journals such as Los noveles, Label Me Latina/o, and Círculo de poesía. His poetry collection is Migraciones de la lengua. Dr. Chee Madrigal’s experience with literary organizations includes serving as Editor-in-Chief of Pterodáctilo and Alud, and as Coordinator for the Chicano/Latino Literary Prize.