JORGE ARGUETA, a Nahua from El Salvador and Poet Laureate Emeritus of San Mateo County, is a prize-winning author of more than twenty children’s books. His book Somos como las nubes / We Are Like the Clouds won the Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award and was named to USBBY’s Outstanding International Books List, ALA Notable Children’s Books and the Cooperative Children’s Book Center Choices. Jorge is the founder of the International Children's Poetry Festival Manyula and the Library of Dreams, a non-profit organization that promotes literacy in El Salvador. Jorge divides his time between San Francisco, California, and El Salvador.EL ALEPH SÁNCHEZ is a Salvadoran fine artist, a member of the Wixnamickcin artistic group (the ancestral Nahuat word for “companions”). His art has been exhibited around the world, often specifically to represent El Salvador. He illustrated the book Olita y Manyula: El gran cumpleaños / Olita and Manyula: The Big Birthday, written by Jorge Argueta, which was an International Latino Book Award honor book. El Aleph is a member of the Festival Internacional de Poesía Infantil Manyula.JUAN VALENTÍN RAMÍREZ GARCÍA was born in Santo Domingo de Guzmán, El Salvador. He is a teacher who has taught Nahuat to middle school students and other teachers. He translated The Little Prince by Antoine Saint Exupéry into Nahuat in 2019. He is passionate about promoting the Nahuat language and hopes to see its importance recognized on a large scale.ELIZABETH BELL lives in the Mission District of San Francisco, California. Her translations have appeared in the City Lights anthologies Light from a Nearby Window (Mexican poetry) and Island of My Hunger (Cuban poetry), among other publications. She translated the middle-grade novel in verse Caravan to the North by Jorge Argueta.
