River Coello is a Guayaquil-born writer, translator, performer, facilitator, speaker, and researcher based in Orlando. They are the author of HAMPI, a multilingual, multimedia collection exploring their reconnection with the Andean cosmovision, published by For the Birds Trapped in Airports. Their previous collections, faith/fe and self/ser, were published by Homie House Press. Their writing is featured in the eXpuestXs anthology by El Beisman Press; the Chicago Reader’s Poetry Corner by the Poetry Foundation; and the Sweeter Voices Still anthology by Belt Publishing. River has earned an Independent Publisher Book Award, an International Latino Book Award, a Parry/Billman Fine Arts Award, and a Canada Council Translation Grant. River has held residencies at Lambda Literary and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts—and, most recently, Jack Straw Cultural Center.

New Media Gallery 2025-26: HAMPI (“medicine” in Quechua), a multilingual, multimedia, autobiographical, and autoethnographic project that chronicles a journey of ancestral reconnection in conversation with the Andean cosmovision