Amit K. Ghosh, Publisher
Amit is the co-founder and publisher of BorderSenses. He earned an MFA in Creative Writing from UTEP in 2002. Amit enjoys reading and writing about immigrant experiences. Living in the frontera for over a decade has made him aware of the conflict between human and national boundaries. Originally from India, Amit has grown to love the US for its limitless possibilities and Mexico for its passionate existence. Amit is also a faculty in Information Systems at UTEP.

Sasha Pimentel Chacón, Editor
Sasha is the incoming editor of BorderSenses. She is the author of Insides She Swallowed (West End Press, 2009), a forthcoming collection of poems.  Her work has appeared in journals such as Colorado Review, The Florida Review, New South, The Dos Passos Review and In The Grove, among others.  She is an Academy of American Poets award winner, a past Philip Levine fellow, a recent multiple pushcart prize nominee, and she teaches creative writing at the University of Texas at El Paso and English at El Paso Community College. She's most interested in reading work that negotiates multiple languages and cultures, non-linear narratives, and work that thrusts up lyric moments from the physical and sensual world.
Please see her blog here http://sashapimentelchacon.blogspot.com

Carmen Seda, Supporting Editor
Carmen has worked with BorderSenses for five years as layout designer, editor and currently as supporting editor. Her selections, Yellow and Birthday, are forthcoming in the Junta Anthology. She earned her M.F.A in poetry from the University of Texas at El Paso. She has lived in El Paso for thirty years, works as a Specialist with the Ysleta Independent School District, and enjoys the company of her grandchildren when not writing or teaching.

Selfa Chew, Spanish Editor
Selfa nació en la Ciudad de México. Obtuvo su licenciatura en Ciencias de la Comunicación en la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México y sus maestrías en Creación Literaria e Historia en la Universidad de Texas en El Paso. Estudió cerámica, pintura y fotografía en diversas escuelas del área de Los Ángeles, California, entre ellas el Art Center de Pasadena. Fue becaria del Smithsonian Center for Latino Initiatives, entre otras instituciones. Es miembro del consejo de redacción de la Revista de Literatura Mexicana Contemporánea y del comité organizador del Congreso de Literatura Mexicana Contemporánea.  Profesora de historia en Saint Lawrence University, es autora de los libros Azogue en la raíz, 2006 y Mudas las Garzas, 2007.  Sus textos han sido publicados en Argentina, Perú, Holanda y los Estados Unidos.

Minerva Laveaga-Duarte, Community Project Director
Minerva es originaria de Durango, México.  Tiene una licenciatura en Filosofía y una maestría en Creación Literaria por la Universidad de Texas en El Paso.  Ha dirigido talleres de escritura para víctimas de violencia doméstica en El Paso, Texas.  Es directora y editora del proyecto Memorias del Silencio:Footprints of the Borderland e imparte cursos de creación literaria para trabajadores del campo en el Programa de Educación para la Comunidad de El Paso Community College.