Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Translated from the Spanish by Celeste Kostopulos-Cooperman, Marjore Agosin's SECRETS IN THE SAND: THE YOUNG WOMEN OF JUAREZ is the work of a poet who has dedicated her life to the search for justice and human dignity. In poems of stark accountability, Agosin invites her readers to bear witness to the atrocities over 350 women around the city of Juarez suffered over the past decade, as well as the grief that the families of the disappeared and murdered young women face every day.

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.