About the Author

Adela Najarro's poetry has appeared in numerous journals and can be found in the University of Arizona Press anthology The Wind Shifts: New Latino Poetry. As part of the Cabrillo College English Department she co-coordinates the Puente Project, a program designed to support Latinidad in all its aspects, while preparing community college students to transfer to four year colleges and universities. Her extended family's emigration from Nicaragua to San Francisco began in the 1940's and concluded in the eighties when the last of the family settled in the Los Angeles area. She holds a doctorate in literature and creative writing from Western Michigan University, as well as an M.F.A. from Vermont College. She now calls Santa Cruz home.