Meet Our Team

The Bayou Review provides a platform for emerging and established writers and artists to feature their work. Our dedicated team carefully reviews all submissions and selects work ranging from prose, poetry, translation, and visual work.

Fall 2026 Editors

Alyssa Santiago

Ashley Grossman

Manuel Martin

Shea Ellen Jones

Alyssa Santiago is an English major at the UHD. She plans to become an English teacher. She loves being outside in the sun and often takes her 3 dogs on long walks or to the dog park. She enjoys reading romance novels, doing crafts, juggling, and spending time with her family and boyfriend.

Ashley Grossman is a senior at UHD pursuing her English degree with a particular love for literature, creative writing, self-exploration, and creativity. Outside of academics, Ashley can be found reading, drawing, knitting, or spending time with her cats and Icelandic Sheepdog. She hopes to continue her studies in English with a Master's degree and eventually help guide new students as a professor at a community college.

Manuel Martin is just a guy trying to survive life and make his mark on the world. He's an English major with a Creative Writing concentration at UHD. His preferred genres are horror and science fiction. He plays video games and loves to explore and learn about the world-building and lore from his favorite video games, movies, tv shows, and books alike!

Houston native and a lover of classic literature, Shae is senior at UHD majoring in English Literature.

Home: Text

Faculty Advisor

Dr. Lau Cesarco Eglin

Dr. Lau Cesarco Eglin (she/ella/ela) is a poet and translator from Uruguay. She is the author of six collections of poetry, including the chapbooks Break a Part (Finishing Line Press, 2026) and Between Gone and Leaving—Home (dancing girl press, 2023). Her poems and translations (from the Spanish, Portuguese, Portuñol, and Galician), have appeared in many journals such as Zócalo: Public Square, Asymptote, Figure 1, Eleven Eleven, Puerto del Sol, Copper Nickel, SRPR, International Poetry Review, Tupelo Quarterly, Columbia Poetry Review, Timber, and more. Cesarco Eglin's latest book in translation is Sardine by the Galician author Miriam Reyes (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2026). Cesarco Eglin is the translator of claus and the scorpion by the Galician author Lara Dopazo Ruibal (co•im•press, 2022), longlisted for both the 2023 PEN Award in Poetry in Translation and the 2023 National Translation Award in Poetry. She is the recipient of the 2019 Best Translated Book Award for her translation of Of Death. Minimal Odes by the Brazilian author Hilda Hilst (co•im•press), which was the winner of the 2019 Best Translated Book Award. Cesarco Eglin is the publisher of Veliz Books and teaches creative writing at the University of Houston-Downtown.