Rosa Regàs is the author of six novels, including La canción de Dorotea (Dorotea’s Song), which won the 2001 Planeta Prize, and Música de Cámara (Chamber Music) (2013); four short story collections, including Viento armado (Armed Wind) (2006); and numerous non-fiction books and articles.
Known as a writer, anthropologist, and professor, Behar is the author of ten books, including Santa Maria del Monte: The Presence of the Past in a Spanish Village (1986), Translated Woman: Crossing the Border with Esperanza’s Story (1993), and recently Lucky Broken Girl (2018).
Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen is the author of thirteen books of poetry including O nome das coisas (The Name of Things) (1977), Geografia (Geography) (1967), and Ilhas (Islands) (1989).
An acclaimed writer of both fiction and nonfiction, she is the author of the essay collection “Sidewalks”; the novels “Faces in the Crowd” and “The Story of My Teeth”; “Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions” and “Lost Children Archive: A Novel.”
Martínez, a poet, translator, and playwright, is the author of three books of poetry.
Zee Edgell is the author of four novels including Beka Lamb (1982), In Times Like These (1991), and Time and the River (2007).
María Roselia Jiménez Pérez has produced several children’s books in Tojolab’al and has composed several pieces of vocal music in her language as well.
Maria Concepcion Bautista Vázquez is a Tsotsil writer and painter from the Tsotsil pueblo of Huixtan, Chiapas.
Marie Thérèse Colimon-Hall wrote three plays, a novel, a collection of short stories and numerous collections of poetry and essays. She is considered one of Haiti’s most prominent female authors.
Marta Lynch published seven novels and nine collections of short prose. Her first novel, La alfombra roja (The Red Carpet)(1962), won the Fabril Prize and was instantly popular. La señora Ordóñez (Mrs. Ordóñez) (1967), was just as successful and was eventually adapted for television (1984).