Board of Directors
MARTA DEL POZO holds a PhD in Spanish literature from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and an MFA in creative writing from New York University. She was awarded the poetry accésit of La memoria del pez by the Academia Castellano-leonesa de poesía (2008), the Antonio Gala International poetry prize for Hambre de imágenes (2015), and the Iberoamerican Poetry Award Entreversos for Nigredo (2017). She is also the author of Escuela de geómetras (Editorial Devenir, 2016). She is also a translator and Associate Professor at the department of Global Languages and Cultures at the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth and the founding editor at Quantum Prose, New York: quantumprosebooks@gmail.com.
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LISSI SÁNCHEZ Her literary and academic work explores the relationship between mind and matter, and seeks to examine how our words and thoughts co-create our perception of reality. She holds a BFA in Film and an MFA in Creative Writing, both from New York University. Her work has been presented in various international journals and anthologies, and her novel El Sapo Blanco was published in 2015 (DiazGrey Editores, NYC). Lissi has practiced meditation for over twenty years, which has led her to apply the principles of conscious perception and full presence to artistic expression. She holds the Mindfulness Course from the University of Massachusetts and the Curriculum Diploma from Mindful Schools.
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LEONARD SCHWARTZ is the author of numerous collections of poetry, including IF, At Element, and The Tower of Diverse Shores, all from Talisman House. The Library of Seven Readings and A Message Back and other Furores, from Chax Press. His poems have appeared in a wide variety of journals and periodicals, including Harper’s, Conjunctions, The Brooklyn Rail, the Literary Review, To, Mandorla, Verse, and Jacket. He has won awards in poetry from The NEA, The Academy of American Poetry, or the New York State Council on the Arts, and has read his work as an invited guest at poetry festivals and venues in France, Sweden, Romania, Turkey, China, Singapore, Buenos Aires, and Peru, among other places. He produces the radio program Cross Cultural Poetics and teaches poetics at The Evergreen State College, WA, as well as in Columbia University’s MFA program.
Advisory Board
GREGG HARPER is an Editorial Advisor and Communications Manager for Quantum Prose. He holds an MA in Art History from University of Cincinnati and a BA in Art History and Classical Archaeology from Northern Kentucky University where he received the Outstanding Alumnus Award, 1992. Professionally he has been the director of the Cape Cod Museum of Art (MA) and Behringer-Crawford Museum (KY) and a Cultural Resource Manager with Apex Companies, LLC. He is a performing musician as well as a visual artist whose work has been included in exhibitions throughout New England as well as Rome and Venice, Italy. He resides in Portland, Maine.
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FRANCISCO JARAUTA is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Murcia (Spain) and a guest lecturer at numerous European and American universities. His work focuses on the fields of philosophy of culture, the history of ideas and aesthetics and theory of art. Among his publications, we could highlight La transformación de la conciencia moderna, Escenarios de la globalización, Poéticas / Políticas, Desafíos de la Mundialización, and Escritura suspendida. He has curated international exhibitions such as ‘Arquitectura radical’ (2002), ‘Micro-Utopías. Arte y Arquitectura’ and ‘Desde el puente de los años. Paul Celan – Gisèle Celan-Lestrange’. He is a member of the Scientific Committee of Iride, Experimenta, Pluriverso, Le Monde Diplomatique, World Political Forum and the Scuola Internazionale di Alti Studi (Modena). He is part of the Géophilosophie de l’Europe group and also coordinator of Grupo Tánger.
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LILA ZEMBORAIN is an Argentine poet and critic who has lived in New York City since 1985. She is the author of the poetry collections Ábrete sésamo debajo del agua, Usted, Guardianes del secreto, Malvas orquídeas del mar, Rasgado, and the chapbooks Ardores, and Pampa. Her work has been included in the anthologies Mujeres mirando al sur: poetas sudamericanas en USA and Final de entrega: antología de poetas contra la violencia de género. About her work, Forrest Gander writes: “In mauve sea-orchids as in her striking earlier book Guardians of the Secret, Lila Zemborain brings into relationship the viscera of the body and the spill of the universe in tense compositions that blur distinctions between lyric and prose poetry, science and eros.” She currently teaches at the New York University MFA in Creative Writing in Spanish program, which she directed from 2009 to 2012.
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GERMÁN SIERRA is a neuroscientist at the University of Santiago de Compostela in Spain and an author of contemporary innovative fiction. He has been included among the "Mutantes" or "Afterpop writers"—a group of Spanish writers deeply committed to literary innovation. Most of his fiction explores metanarratives and the role of science and technology as cultural discourses in post-postmodern and posthuman societies. He has published five novels. Efectos Secundarios was awarded the Jaén Prize in 2000. His first book written in English, The Artifact, was set to be published by Inside the Castle in autumn 2018. He is on Twitter @germansierra.
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BASARAB NICOLESCU is an honorary theoretical physicist at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in Paris, a professor at BabeÈ™-Bolyai University in Romania, and a Professor Extraordinary at the School of Public Leadership at Stellenbosch University in South Africa. He is also a member of the Romanian Academy and the President-Founder of the Centre for Transdisciplinary Research and Studies (CIRET). Nicolescu is internationally recognized for his work on transdisciplinarity. His books include: From Modernity to Cosmodernity – Science, Culture and Spirituality (SUNY Press, 2014), Manifesto of Transdisciplinarity (SUNY Press, 2002), Science, Meaning and Evolution – The Cosmology of Jacob Boehme (Parabola Books, New York)​​​​
Art Residence Coordinator
IVÁN PÉREZ-BLANCO AVILÉS is a multidisciplinary artist born in Mexico City. He studied photography at the Escuela Activa de Fotografía and pursued further training in Arts Management, Design, and Visual Communications at the School of Arts at UNAM (Mexico). His work has been exhibited in Exposición del Club Atlántico (2014), Centro Cultural Digital Estela de Luz (2015), and Presentación y Proyección del Disco Funker (2015). He was also selected in the call for artists Diseña tu RTP para Ciudad de México. Currently based on Holbox Island, Iván teaches drawing to students of all ages and leads a range of ecological and artistic initiatives. He is the founder of Compost Holbox, a licensed kayak guide, and a passionate advocate for the mangrove ecosystem and the bioluminescent wonders of the region. He serves as Art Residence Director for the Quantum Prose–Holbox Program.
