Stitching Resistance: Women, Creativity, and Fiber Arts

About

Marjorie Agosin is an award-winning poet essayist fiction writer activist and professor. She is a prolific author: her published books including those she has written as well as those she has edited number over eighty. Her two most recent books are both poetry collections The Light of Desire / La Luz del Deseo translated by Lori Marie Carlson (Swan Isle Press 2009) and Secrets in the Sand: The Young Women of Juarez translated by Celeste Kostopulos-Cooperman (White Pine Press 2006) about the female homicides in Ciudad Juarez. She teaches Spanish language and Latin American literature at Wellesley College USA. She has won notability for her outspokenness for women's rights in Chile. The United Nations has honored her for her work on human rights. She also won many important literary awards. The Chilean government awarded her with the Gabriela Mistral Medal of Honor for Life Achievement in 2002.