Gigi Guizado is an award-winning actor, director, translator, and writer. Her original plays, theatre translations, and adaptations have been staged in San Francisco, Seattle, Las Vegas, and London. Her critically acclaimed acting career spans film, voiceover, regional theatre and off-West End. Her translations of Latin American plays have been published by Inti Press, Another Chicago Magazine, Asymptote Journal, The Mercurian, and featured on Performing International Plays. Her poetry has been nominated for Best of the Net and published in The Emerson Review, Rogue Agent Journal, Salamander Ink Magazine, The Bluebird Word, and elsewhere. Hourglass is her debut chapbook.