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About Brenda WegmannMary GillMendez-Faith

Teresa Mndez-Faith was born in Asuncion Paraguay. She received her PhD at the University of Michigan in 1979. She currently resides in New England. An essayist literary critic and college professor she teaches Hispanic-American literature at Saint Anselm College New Hampshire. She has authored several books including PARAGUAY: NOVELA Y EXILIO (1985) and NUEVOS CONTEXTOS: DOCE CUENTISTAS CONTEMPORNEOS DE HISPANOAMRICA (2002) and is co-author of four Spanish textbooks. Teresa Mndez-Faith has been awarded several academic distinctions including two postgraduate scholarships from the National for Endowment the Humanities the AAUP Teacher of the Year prize at her college (1990) and also that same year the Sears-Roebuck Foundation Teaching Excellence and Campus Leadership Award. : Mary McVey Gill has co-authored numerous books in Spanish including EN CONTACTO: LECTURAS INTERMEDIAS and HABLEMOS ESPAOL. She worked in academic publishing for many years and co-authored TAPESTRY II: LISTENING/SPEAKING a book for English language learners. Brenda Wegmann received a Master's degree in Spanish literature from the University of Wisconsin and taught Spanish for seven years at Boston University and Northeastern University before moving to Canada in 1974. Since then she has lived with her family in Edmonton while teaching Spanish at the University of Alberta in the Department of Extension and writing Spanish and ESL textbooks as well as trade books. Among her publications (written in collaboration with outstanding co-authors) are the following: PERSPECTIVAS EN CONTACTO (for intermediate university Spanish) MOSAIC 1 & 2 (ESL readers) PRONTO Y PRCTICO (Practical Spanish for Canadians) STREETWISE SPANISH DICTIONARY / THESAURUS LAUGH N' LEARN SPANISH (co-authored with cartoonist Lynn Johnston of For Better or For Worse) TUNE UP YOUR SPANISH and most recently THE RED-HOT BOOK OF SPANISH SLANG AND IDIOMS.