Lorna Dee Cervantes is the author of Emplumada, From the Cables of Genocide, Ciento, DRIVE, and April on Olympia. Awarded NEA Fellowships, Pushcart Prizes, a Lila Wallace, state arts grants and best book awards, the founder of Mango Publications (first to publish Sandra Cisneros), Cervantes presented at the Library of Congress, Dodge Poetry Festival, Walker Art Center, Nuyorican Poets Cafe, and others. Former Prof. of English and Director of Creative Writing at CU Boulder for 20 years, she writes in Seattle.