Arturo Desimone (Bushiri, 1984) was born and raised on the island Aruba. His articles, poetry and fiction pieces in English previously appeared in New Orleans Review, Drunken Boat, Berfrois, the Sydney Review of Books, Latino Review of Books, and South Florida Poetry Journal. He has performed at international poetry festivals in Nicaragua, in Kairouan, in Havana and Buenos Aires, and most recently at the international poetry festivals of Medellín and of Cali, Colombia. He spent a year in Tunisia studying classical Arabic during the period of the thawra and has continued his study of Arabic, his sixth language, ever since. He wrote his most recent book of poems, “Kibocacion Entre Luz y Boca” (Errors of a Twilight-Mouth) in the Papiamento language of Aruba and Curaçao, and the first bilingual edition, featuring translation into Spanish, was published in Argentina in 2025. Among other current projects, he is working on a multilingual play set between the Netherlands and the Dutch Caribbean.