JUDITH ORTIZ COFER (1952– 2016) was the Regents’ and Franklin Professor of English and Creative Writing Emerita at the University of Georgia. She is also the author of <i>The Latin Deli: Telling the Lives of Barrio Women</i>, <i>An Island Like You: Stories of the Barrio</i>, <i>Woman in Front of the Sun: On Becoming a Writer</i>; and many other books. The University of Georgia Press published her first novel, <i>The Line of the Sun</i>, in 1989.