Mar­jorie Agosín is the Pura Bel­pré Award – win­ning author of I Lived on But­ter­fly Hill and The Maps of Mem­o­ry. Raised in Chile, her fam­i­ly moved to the Unit­ed States to escape the hor­rors of the Pinochet takeover of their coun­try. She has received the Letras de Oro Prize for her poet­ry, and her writ­ings about — and human­i­tar­i­an work for — women in Chile have been the focus of fea­ture arti­cles in The New York Times, The Chris­t­ian Sci­ence Mon­i­tor, and Ms. mag­a­zine. She has also won the Lati­no Lit­er­a­ture Prize for her poet­ry. She is a Span­ish pro­fes­sor at Welles­ley College.