Landsmoder (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781945649912)

Elena Salamanca (San Salvador, 1982) is a writer and historian. She has published La familia o el olvido (2017 and 2018), Peces en la boca (2013 and 2011), Landsmoder (2012), and ﾚltimo viernes (2017 and 2018). Her most recent books, Claudia Lars: La ni que vio una salamandra (2020) and Prudencia Ayala: La ni con pajaros en la cabeza (2021) are the first two volumes of her "Colecci Siemprevivas" series dedicated to the stories of more than 40 women who were born or lived in El Salvador between the XVIII and XX centuries. Her work has been translated into English, French, German, and Swedish. Since 2009, she has combined literature, performance, memory, and politics in public space. She is a doctorate candidate in History from the Colegio de M騙ico, and her thesis investigates the relationships between Central American unity, citizenship, and exile. She earned her masters in History from El Colegio de M騙ico (2016) and the Universidad de Huelva, Spain (2013).

Ryan Greene is a translator, poet, and book farmer from Phoenix, Arizona. He's a co-conspirator at F*%K IF I KNOW//BOOKS [www.fiikbooks.org], and he's translated collections by Elena Salamanca, Claudina Domingo, Ana Bel駭 Lez, Giancarlo Huapaya, and Yaxkin Melchy, among others. Since 2018, he has facilitated the Cardboard House Press Cartonera Collective bookmaking workshops at Palabras Bilingual Bookstore. Like Collier, the ground he stands on is not his ground.