who we are

Meet Fuenteco's Team

Layla Al-Bedawi

Layla Al-Bedawi is a writer, poet, language and writing teacher, podcaster, and bookbinder (among other things). English is her third language after Russian and German, but she's been dreaming in it for years. Born in Germany to Kurdish and Ukrainian parents, she immigrated to the US in 2006. While she considers gorgeous West Virginia her US home state after spending her first years in the US in the TESOL and English Literature M.A. programs at WVU, she currently lives in Houston, TX, where she co-founded Writefest, a week-long festival for emerging writers of all genres, for which she acted as Festival Director in its first two years. Her work, which frequently blurs the lines between fiction and poetry, between "literary" and speculative, is published in Bayou Magazine, Strange Horizons, Liminal Stories, Mithila Review, and elsewhere. Find her on Twitter under @frauleinlayla. 

Patricia Coral

Patricia Coral was born in Puerto Rico, were she became passionate about words and obtained a MA in Spanish Literature and Linguistics. In 2014 she moved to Houston where the adventure of writing in a borrowed language began. She is a writer of creative nonfiction, fiction, and poetry, but frequently her words find their home in-between. Patricia has participated in multiple national and international projects as program director, educational consultant, curriculum developer, and editor and translation of educational publications, among others. She is an experienced nonprofit program manager and fundraiser in the arts and education sectors. Currently, Patricia is Program and Development Manager at Inprint, Houston’s premier literary arts nonprofit organization. Her work has been published in Fireside Fiction, Crab Fat Magazine, Yellow Chair Review, Una realidad más amplia/A Larger Reality, and elsewhere.