Sonia Guti�rrez is the recipient of the Tom�s Rivera Book Award and the International Latino Book Awards for her novel Dreaming with Mariposas (FlowerSong Press, 2020). Sonia Guti�rrez is the author of Spider Woman / La Mujer Ara�a (Olmeca Press, 2013) and the coeditor of The Writer's Response (Cengage Learning, 2016). She teaches critical thinking and writing, creative writing, and women's, gender, and sexuality studies. Presently, she is working on her first picture book, The Adventures of a Burrito Flying Saucer, and poetry collection, Sana Sana Colita de Rana. She lives in the Californias. Francisco J. Bustos is a poet, translator, and musician. In 2009, he founded a poetry/music group, Frontera Drum Fusion, which fused acoustic, electric, and digital music with bilingual poetry in English, Spanish, Spanglish, and Ingle�ol. Francisco J. Bustos is also a professor at Southwestern College and poet-translator of the San Diego Poetry Annual. In 2020, he founded Radio San Ysidro Mulmenyah (RSYM), an online musical platform of poetry and music, where poets and the borderlands community meet weekly via Zoom to write poetry a la brava with the sound of a healing drum playing in the background. His RSYM project also produces live perfomances on both sides of the borderlands.