Writer and filmmaker E.C. GRAHAM has lived and worked in Barcelona, Philadelphia, Amman, Damascus, Mexico City, and Kyoto. His independent film, La Rosa Negra, won the second-place prize in the prestigious New York Latin American Film Festival, and was the first-prize winner in the Nits de Curtmetratges film festival in Barcelona, where it was chosen to represent Barcelona in the Biennale in Athens, Greece, in 2000.

A native of Southern Arizona, Graham studied writing at the SOGEM in Mexico City, received an undergraduate degree in Japanese Studies from Earlham College (leading him to spend a year teaching English in Kyoto), and completed a masters degree at St. John's College in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He is currently completing work on a sociolinguistic guide to learning and understanding the issues around minority languages, with a focus on the Catalan language, as well as conducting a series of language-immersion seminars in New York City called Guerilla Language as a part of his research. Recent highlights include delivering a talk on his research at an international linguistics symposium in Warsaw in September 2010. He is the co-author, with Kevin Hanek, of Wink: Warren Muller.