Glória Sofia was born in 1985 in Praia, Cape Verde, and lives in the Netherlands. She majored in Englineering and Environmental Management at the University of Azores (Portugal). She participated in the International Poetry Festival in (Curtea de Arges) Romania (2016), (Istanbul) Turkey (2017), Ditet & Naimit Macedonia / Albania (2018). She has musicalized poems, published three books. and translated four anthologies.

Angélica Freitas was born in Brazil in 1973. She is the author of two books of poetry, Rilke shake (Phoneme Press), translated by Hilary Kaplan and winner of the Best Translated Book Award and of the National Translation Award in 2016, and Um útero é do tamanho de um punho (A uterus is the size of a fist). She has also published a graphic novel, Guadalupe, in collaboration with the Brazilian visual artist Odyr Bernardi. Freitas’s poems have been published in magazines such as Granta, Modern Poetry in Translation, Poetry and The White Review