Marjorie Agosín studied comparative literature at Indiana University and philosophy at the University of Georgia.
This writer has been a professor of Spanish and Latin American literature at Wellesley College for more than three decades.
In addition to being an academic, she is a poet, novelist and human rights activist.
Considered among the most prolific and versatile authors in the Americas,
she has been recognized by the United Nations with the Leadership in Human Rights award and by the Government of Chile with the Gabriela Mistral award.
She is also a poet laureate of the Harvard Refugee Trauma Program. She is the author of more than fifty books including narrative poetry, theater and memoirs.
Among his most notable books are "I Lived on Butterfly Hill," a Pura Belpré Prize-winning novel, and his most recent poetry collection, The White Islands.
In 2018 he wrote the book "The Flowering Tree" and in 2021 "Las Arpilleras. A story told with thread and needle" both published by Ediciones Mis Raíces.