Graciela Limón is the critically acclaimed and award-winning author of seven novels: Left Alive (2005), Erased Faces (2001), The Day of the Moon (1999), Song of the Hummingbird (1996), The Memories of Ana Calderón (1994) In Search of Bernabé (1993), and Left Alive (2005), all from Arte Público Press. In Search of Bernabé, translated and published in Spanish as En busca de Bernabé in 1997, is the recipient of an American Book Award. It was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times' Art Seidenbaum First Novel Award and was named a "Notable Book of the Year" by The New York Times Book Review. Erased Faces is the recipient of the 2002 Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award. Limón is Professor Emeritus of Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles where she served as a professor of U.S. Latina/o Literature and Chair of the Department of Chicana/o Studies.
Ernesto Colín is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Anthropology of Education at Stanford University. His research interests include Indigenous Mexican and Chicano identities and cultural productions.