Marjorie Agosin
Marjorie Agosin is an award winning poet, Human Rights
activist and a professor at Wellesley College. She has
authored almost twenty books of poetry and memoir and has
also edited numerous anthologies dedicated to Latin-American
women writers. She has been recognized by the government of
Chile with the Gabriela Mistral Medal of Honor for Life
Achievement in 2002 and nominated for the Neustad Prize for
World Literature in 2003 and 2005. In 1998 she was honored
by the United Nations for her Human rights work. Among her
most recent titles are Cartographies Meditation on
Travel in 2004 and At The Threshold of Memory; New
and Selected Poems in 2003. Forthcoming books include
Secrets in the Sand the Women of Ciudad Juarez and
Writings Towards Hope. Agosín will teach
workshops during morning sessions.
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