LEAD EDITOR
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Luz Schweig (she/ella) is the lead editor of the Somos Xicanas anthology, recipient of the Dolores Huerta Best Cultural & Community Themed Book, and the Best Women’s Issues Book 2025 International Latino Book Awards. Her anthologizing of women's voices over the years has focused on community building, healing and challenging stereotypes. Luz is a former volunteer staff member at Somos en escrito Literary Foundation and the creator of the Best Raza Story of the Year Contest. Her debut poetry collection, first penned under a literary pseudonym, will be released in March 2026 with Mouthfeel Press, in Texas. Luz grew up in Mexico Tenochtitlan and a U.S border city. She currently lives by the Powhatan River, on occupied Tsenacommacah territory, otherwise known as Tidewater, Virginia, where she is a member of the Poetry Society of Virginia.
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LUZ SCHWEIG
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ASSISTANT EDITORS
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JENNY IRIZARY
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Jenny Irizary co-edited El Porvenir, ¡Ya!, Our Creative Realidades and other books published by Somos en escrito, while working there in various capacities as a volunteer staff member for six years. Their/her work has been published in CERASUS, Squalorly, HInchas de Poesía, Communion, Snapping Twig, and other journals. Jenny has a B.A. in Ethnic Studies and M.A. in literature from Mills College. Together with Scott Russell Duncan, Jenny edited the anthology Xicanxfuturism: Gritos for Tomorrow Codex I & II (Riot of Roses Publishing House, 2025) and helps organize and run the Palabras del Pueblo Writing Workshops. She is currently working on a top secret historical writing project, overseen by a semi-nomadic feline.
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SCOTT RUSSELL DUNCAN
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Scott Russell Duncan, a Xicano writer, was editor on the first Chicano sci-fi anthology, El Porvenir, ¡Ya!, which was a finalist in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards. He is the lead editor of the anthology Xicanxfuturism: Gritos for Tomorrow Codex I & II (Riot of Roses Publishing House, 2025), a raza futurology anthology. Scott is director of Palabras del Pueblo, a writing workshop for la raza. In 2016 his story “How My Hide Got Color” won San Francisco Litquake’s Short Story Contest, and in 2019, his nonfiction piece “Mexican American Psycho is in Your Dreams” won first place in the Solstice Literary Magazine Annual Literary Contest. Scott's new book, Old California Strikes Back, a magic memoir and meta-novel tour of California with the head of Joaquin Murrieta is forthcoming with FlowerSong Press. He is at work on a collection of short stories called Plurality, as well as his own publishing house, MAIZ POPPIN' PRESS. Find out more about Scott on his website.
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ARMANDO B. RENDÓN
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Armando B. Rendón, born in 1939 in San Antonio, Texas, authored Chicano Manifesto (latest edition, Somos en escrito Press, 2021), the first book written by a Chicano about the Chicano Movement. In 2009, Rendón founded Somos en escrito Magazine and in 2016 established the Somos en escrito Literary Foundation, which operates the Magazine and Press. In 2019, his essay titled “Blueprint for the Next 50 Years,” led to the creation of MeXicanos 2070, a national organization dedicated to preserving and advancing Mexican American culture. Rendón is also the author of an award-winning four-part series for Young Adults titled The Adventures of Noldo and His Magical Scooter and a sequel, The Wizard of the Blue Hole. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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