Wendy Barker published fifteen collections of verse. Her poems appeared regularly in Poetry magazine, the Southern Review, and other literary journals. At the time of her death in 2023, she was poet-in-residence and the Pearl LeWinn Endowed Chair in Creative Writing at the University of Texas at San Antonio, where she taught since 1982.

Steven G. Kellman is professor of comparative literature and the Jack and Laura Richmond Endowed Faculty Fellow at the University of Texas at San Antonio.

Ilan Stavans is the Lewis-Sebring Professor of Humanities and Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College, the publisher of Restless Books, and a consultant to the Oxford English Dictionary.