Fire from the Andes - by Susan E Benner & Kathy S Leonard (Paperback)

About the Book

South American women authors look at the female experience.

Book Synopsis

South American women authors look at the female experience.

About the Author

Susan Benner is an instructor of English and linguistics at Iowa State University and an Iowa Art Fellow in the Master of Fine Arts in translation program at the University of Iowa.

Kathy Leonard is professor of Spanish and Hispanic linguistics at Iowa State University, Ames, and was a Fulbright-Hays Fellow in Bolivia. She was awarded an NEH grant for 2003 to translate the Bolivian novel Bajo el oscuro sol by Yolanda Bedregal.

Marjorie Agosín is the Andrew Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Wellesley College. She is the award-winning author of numerous works of poetry, fiction, and literary criticism. Her works include I Lived on Butterfly Hill, The Maps of Memory: Return to Butterfly Hill, Always from Somewhere Else: A Memoir of My Chilean Jewish Father, and Secrets in the Sand: The Young Women of Juárez.