Amparo Osorio is a major Spanish-language poet who has also written fiction and essays. She is editor of the literary review Común Presencia; co-founder of the Literary Foundation Común Presencia, an institution for cultural research, data collection and dissemination; co-founder of the weekly webzine Los Conjurados, which has 60,000 subscribers; and co-founder of the Colombian division of World Poetry Day. She is also co-director of the international literary imprint Los Conjurados. Her poems have been translated into several languages and she has visited many countries as an ambassador of the review Común Presencia.

Born in Santa Marta, on the Caribbean coast, Díaz Granados, a poet, novelist and cultural journalist, has been one of the main promoters of the “Generación sin nombre”, a group of Colombian poets born in the 1940s. He has written literary criticism for the press and appeared on television, and is a professor of literature at two universities in Bogotá. He has published eight books of poetry, including a book of selected poems, La fiesta perpetua. Obra poética, 1962–2002 (2003), as well as six novels; four children’s books and an essay on Pablo Neruda.

A poet and short story writer, José Zuleta Ortiz has published five books of poetry and one short story collection, and has been awarded several poetry prizes. He is co-director of the Revista de Poesía Clave and of the review Odradek, el Cuento. He is also director of the program ‘Parole’, which operates in ten Colombian prisons.