Cancula / Dog Days

About the Author

William Archila, born in El Salvador,is the author of the most recent publications Cancula/Dog Days: Selected Poems 2009-2013 and S is For, winner of the 2023 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry. He is also the author of The Art of Exile and The Gravedigger's Archaeology. He was awarded the 2023 Jack Hazard fellowship. He has been published in Poetry magazine, The American Poetry Review, AGNI, The Georgia Review, The Kenyon Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, Indiana Review, TriQuarterly, and the anthology Latino Poetry: The Library of America Anthology. He is an associate editor at Ta Chucha Press. Born in El Salvador, he now lives in Los Angeles, on Tongva land.

Mario Zetinois a Salvadoran poet, translator, and scholar. He has published five poetry collections and has edited three anthologies of Salvadoran poetry. His most recent work is the collectionEl corazn del universo(The Heart of the Universe. KDP, 2025). His work has been published in anthologies such asSegundo ndice antolgico de la poesa salvadoreaand in magazines such asLa Zebra,Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos,The Los Angeles Review, andLatino Book Review. In 2016, he was a resident writer in the Hispanic Writers Week of UMass Boston. He holds a degree in Spanish from Universidad de El Salvador and has published several papers on literary studies.

Las publicaciones ms recientes de William Archila incluyen Cancula/Dog Days: Antologa Poetica 2009-2013 y S is for, que recibi el 2023 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry. Ha publicado los poemarios The Art of Exile y The Gravedigger's Archaeology. En 2023 fue galardonado con la beca Jack Hazard. Su trabajo ha sido publicado en revistas como Poetry, The American Poetry Review, AGNI, The Georgia Review, The Kenyon Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, Indiana Review, TriQuarterly; y en la antologa Latino Poetry: The Library of America Anthology. Es editor asociado de Ta Chucha Press. Reside en Los ngeles, en territorio Tongva.

Mario Zetino es un poeta, traductor y academico salvadoreo. Ha publicado cinco poemarios y ha compilado tres antologas de poesa salvadorea. Su libro ms reciente esEl corazn del universo(KDP, 2025). Su trabajo ha sido publicado en antologas comoSegundo ndice antolgico de la poesa salvadoreay en revistas comoLa Zebra,Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos,The Los Angeles ReviewyLatino Book Review. En 2016, fue escritor residente en la Hispanic Writers Week de la UMass Boston. Es Licenciado en Letras por la Universidad de El Salvador. Ha publicado diversos artculos sobre estudios literarios.