Cincinnati Romance Review

Mauricio Espinoza is Associate Professor of Spanish in the Department of Romance and Arabic Languages, Niehoff Professor in Film and Media Studies, and Director of the Latin American, Caribbean and Latinx Studies Program at the University of Cincinnati. He holds MA and PhD degrees in Latin American literary and cultural studies from The Ohio State University. His areas of research are Central American literary and cultural studies, Latinx popular culture, and migration. He is co-editor of En el corazón de todo: Antología bilingüe de poetas hispanohablantes de Ohio / In the Heart of It All: Bilingual Anthology of Ohio Spanish-Language Poets (Sevilla, Spain: Ultramarina, 2024). Central American Migrations in the Twenty-First Century (Arizona UP, 2023) and The Rise of Central American Film in the Twenty-First Century (UP of Florida, 2023). He is also a poet and literary translator.

Beatriz Brenes Mora is an award-winning Costa Rican actress, video editor, and writer. Her work has been published by Barrelhouse, Michigan Quarterly Review and is forthcoming in Iron Horse Review. Her short story “How to Make Tamales After Lucía” was a semi-finalist for the 2023 Sewanee Review Fiction Contest. She’s been to Tin House Summer and Winter Workshop, Anaphora Arts, Macondo Writers Workshop and was a semi-finalist for the Key West Literary Seminar Emerging Writer Award. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Pacific University and is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Cincinnati, where she lives with Matilda, a way-too-smart mini husky with special powers (like her namesake).