Liliana Valenzuela was born and raised in Mexico City, and is an adopted Tejana. literary translator, poet, and essayist. Her work has appeared in The Edinburgh Review, Indiana Review, Tigertail, Ventana Abierta, and other journals and publications. She has a bilingual poetry manuscript entitled Codex of Desire/Códice del Deseo. This year the Austin Poetry Society honored her with four first prize awards. Tony Beckwith (says about himself) I've been writing since about 1950, mainly poems and stories, lots of whimsy. As a young man I traveled widely; keeping in touch with family via postcards and paper napkins helped to train my eye, and taught me something about brevity and clarity, which are qualities I appreciate in poetry.