Poetry. "It is about singing, despite beatings...the new public voices of women invented out of private pain"—Diane Russell-Pineda.
Author City: WELLESLEY, MA USA
Marjorie Agosín, human rights activist, writer, and scholar, was born in Bethesda, MD, in 1955, but her family returned to Chile when she was only three months old. A descendant of Russian and Austrian Jews who fled pogroms and the Holocaust, she grew up in Santiago de Chile, where she attended the Instituto Hebreo (Jewish school) until she was fourteen. Then, the Pinochet dictatorship forced her family into exile. In 1971, they moved to the U.S., where Agosín completed her education. She is currently a professor of Latin American Studies at Wellesley College, MA.