Benjamin Busch is a filmmaker, photographer, and illustrator. His images from Iraq comprise two traveling exhibits, The Art In War (2003) and Occupation (2005), and have served as cover art for Five Points, War, Literature & the Arts, Epiphany, and others. He is also a writer and poet.
Eduardo Halfon was born in Guatemala City. He moved to the United States with his family at the age of ten, went to school in South Florida, studied industrial engineering at North Carolina State University, and returned to Guatemala to teach literature for eight years at Universidad Francisco Marroquín. Named [End Page 175] one of the best young Latin American writers by the Hay Festival of Bogotá, he is the recipient of the prestigious José María de Pereda Prize for the Short Novel and a Guggenheim fellowship. The Polish Boxer (Bellevue Literary P) is the first of his nine novels to be published in English.
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