Who We Are

Adam Wilcox

Adam Wilcox lives and works in Rochester, N.Y., with his wife Anne, their three children and Violet, their Bernese Mountain Dog, More of his work can be read at www.medium.com/@AdamAWilcox

Agent Murtagh and Tallon

Annie Vanderboom

Annie Vanderboom has worked behind the curtain for La Cuadra over many years as an editor, general advisor and inebriate-companion hybrid. Recently, she has put pen to paper and is developing her own column for these pages. We welcome her to the front-end of the house and can’t wait to see her in the mezcal bar instigating shenanigans and kicking ...

Bill McGowan

Bill McGowan is a freelance writer who spends most of the year living in Antigua, Guatemala, where he manages an eclectic bookstore, Dyslexia Libros, owned by an equally eclectic dive bar, Café No Sé. As such, part of his pay is in drinks. Bill was born in 1947 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and spent much of his life in Chicago. In ...

Dave Ivey

Dave Ivey is one of the eagle-eyed editors of La Cuadra Magazine. He lives and works with the woman who divorced his sorry ass in Antigua, Guatemala. We love him very much.

Geet Jacobs

After a childhood divided between Britain, India, the Pacific Northwest of the United States and many points between, beside and askance, Geet Jacobs finally made his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico. A web and multimedia designer by trade, Geet is confused by the strict parameters of geography and time and so has chosen to ignore them. He’s found a ...

Hannah Wallace Bowman

Hannah Wallace Bowman first knocked our socks off several years ago when she lived in Antigua and wrote a couple of genius pieces for La Cuadra. Then, pursuing journalistic and storytelling opportunities in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, she headed out into the wider world. Now she’s come home and we’re on pins to start collaborating with her again ...

Jeff Abbott

Jeff Abbott is an independent journalist based in Guatemala. He has written for Truth-Out, VICE, Open Democracy, The North-American Congress on Latin America and Upside-Down World. La Cuadra is honored to have him on the team and encourages everyone to read his work, buy him mezcal and follow him at Twitter @palabrasdeabajo.

John Rexer

John Rexer, the founder and editor of La Cuadra Magazine, expatriated himself from Los Estados about 12 years ago because he couldn’t stand seeing his city, New York, lobotomized by the metastasizing sameness of WalMart America and didn’t have a pillow large enough to Chief Bromden the place out of it’s misery. After knocking around Mexico for a while he ...

Julia Tallon

Julia Tallon writes short fiction and poetry in between design gigs while studying at Montgomery College in Rockville, Maryland.

Kevin Petrie

Kevin Petrie is a natural writer with an unnatural talent for confessional creative non-fiction. He hails from the Pacific Northwest, a land to which he has returned after years of knocking about South and Southeast Asia, as well as Central America. Much of his writing in La Cuadra has been about those experiences, and as he is also born to ...

Matthew Grimm

Matthew Grimm is a freelance journalist, singer-songwriter and frontman for the legendary roots rock band, The Hangdogs. He can’t be bought, but if you are not a racist or fascist asshole, he’d be more than happy to drink your beer.

Michael Chrisman

Michael Chrisman is an American expat from New England who has been living, writing and creating music around Antigua since 2008. We’re beyond lucky to have him as our lead editor here at La Cuadra, but his truest talent lies in the poet’s pen. We encourage you to pick up a copy of his book, Little Stories, by following one ...

Michael Tallon

Michael Tallon, Editor-in-Chief, head writer and delivery boy, of La Cuadra Magazine, expatriated from the States 11 years ago. After spending a year in Antigua gasbagging about wanting to start an English Language magazine, he hit the road and wandered about South America, India and Nepal before finding himself sipping tea in Darjeeling and realizing that maybe it was time ...

Miles Afuera

Miles Afuera lives in the moment, loves on the run and rocks for the people. Additionally, he can’t wait to play Sun City.

Nuria Elkout

Rachel Wright

The Editors

The Editors of La Cuadra Magazine are an amorphous, decentralized, anarcho-syndicalist, death-defying, sobriety-challenging, non-gender-specific collective of bastards. They seek justice, truth, light in the darkness, love, hope and bars that do buy-backs on principle.