A poet, fiction writer, essayist and publisher, Márquez Cristo has published four poetry collections, an anthology of his poetry, a novel and a book of short stories. In 1989 he participated in the founding of the well-known literary review, Común presencia. He is a director of the literary imprint Los conjurados and the weekly webzine Letra viva. His poems have been translated into several languages and included in 21 anthologies. He has received several awards, and his work has been reviewed by, among others, E.M. Cioran, Roberto Juarroz, Antonia Gamoneda, Roger Munier, Claude Michel Cluny and Antonio Ramos Rosa.

Born in Cali, Colombia, Orietta Lozano has published five books of poems, a novel, a long essay about Alejandra Pizarnik and an anthology of poetry from her native region of Valle del Cauca. Her poetry has been published in many reviews, newspapers and anthologies in Colombia and abroad. In 1986 she was awarded a national poetry prize and another for erotic poetry. In 1995 she was invited to the XIII Biennale Internationale des Poètes in Paris, and, by the Fondation Royaumont, to the Seminar on the Translation of Foreign Poets to discuss the translation of one of her books.

Ramón Cote, born in Cúcuta, Colombia, studied Art History in the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain. He has published seven books of poetry, including an anthology of his own work, two books of short stories and a biography of Goya. He has also compiled an anthology of young Latin American poets, and one of Colombian poetry. He was awarded two poetry prizes in Spain for his book Colección privada (Private Collection) and his yet unpublished latest book of poems.

A poet of the Wayuu Nation in northern Colombia, Miguel Ángel López, or, in Wayuu, Vito Apüshana, did not go to college. Rather, he dedicated his life and his poetry to the discovery of his roots  and the search for a dialogue between the rich Amerindian tradition and modern society. He has published four books of poems, and in 2000 was awarded the Latin American literary prize Casa de las Américas for his book Encuentros en los senderos de Abya Yala. In 2002, he was awarded a scholarship to live some months in Mexico, where he wrote the yet unpublished book I Bring Water from the Tezcoco Lake.