Cacayo Ballesteros (aka José R. Ballesteros) is an Associate Professor at St. Mary’s College of Maryland. He is the author of a bilingual book of poems Polvo Enamorado/Lovedust, forthcoming from Izote Press. He co-edited the anthology Voces de España (Cenage, 2013), and is included in Al Pie de La Casa Blanca: Poetas Hispanos de Washington, DC (Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española, 2010). Ballesteros translates contemporary Latin American poetry into English, and is co-founder and editor of the bilingual literary press Zozobra Publishing.