Agustín Guambo (Quito, Ecuador) is a poet, writer, and anthropologist. He directs the anarcho-editorial Project Murcielagario Kartonera, and organized the first two years of the International poetry festival Lectura de un Kanibal Urbano (Lecture of an Urban Kanibal) in Quito. His publications include POPEYE’s Sea (La Apacheta Cartonera); Ceniza de Rinoceronte (La Caída); and Primavera Nuclear Andina (A/terna). His work has been included in the anthologies Sangre de Spondylus: Ecuadorian Late Poetry (Vallejo & Co., Peru) selected by Luis Carlos Musso and Mario Pera; and País imaginario: Escrituras y transtextos: Poesía Latinoamericana 1980 – 1992, selected by Maurizio Medo, Mario Arteca, and Reynaldo Jiménez (Ay del seis). Guambo has participated in multiple lectures and readings in Latin America including the Buenos Aires Book Fair, Lima’s Anti FIL, Cali, La Paz, and Santiago, and won the Ruben Bonifacio Nuño Prize in Mexico.

Carlos Moreno (Carlos No) (Quito, Equador) is a visual artist, researcher in the field of cultural politics, and independent cultural agent. His work focuses on the relationship of the public with the arts. He curates and produces diverse exhibitions and collective projects to address the problematics of cultural sustainability in Quito as well as the debate on the influence of Western culture in the periphery. He is part of the collectives Komuna Kitu and Cultura Viva Comunitaria. He has edited TrueQue’s Residency compilation (Ayampe, Ecuador) and written articles about cultural politics in Latin America, the arts, and education. Moreno is working on a master’s thesis about public funds in culture at Simón Bolívar Andean University and is pursuing a master’s degree in Sociology at the Latin American Social Sciences Institute.