Rudolfo Anaya is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of New Mexico and award-winning author of numerous books including the classic Bless Me, Ultima. He has received myriad awards and honors for his work including Western Writers of America's Owen Wister Award (2018), the National Humanities Medal (2015), the National Medal of Arts (2001) and the Robert Kirsch Award for lifetime achievement from the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes (2012). He lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where the Southwest has served as an inspiration for his writing throughout his life.Robert Con Davis-Undiano is Neustadt Professor and Presidential Professor at the University of Oklahoma and Executive Director of World Literature Today. Among his many publications are The Paternal Romance: Reading God-the-Father in Early Western Culture and Criticism and Culture: The Role of Critique in Modern Literary Theory.

Anaya's voice never falters. . . . As with everything [he] writes, there is a profound sense of hope and an unabashed love of his culture, land, and writing craft."" Multicultural Review""Anaya's characters' longing shimmers off elegiac, deceptively simple prose, captivating in its aspiration and achievement.""- Publishers Weekly""As a playwright, Rudolfo Anaya captures the rhythms and language of the New Mexican experience. His talent, tenacity, and breadth as an artist, has inspired me. I have enjoyed working with Rudy and directing his plays because they were fun and had wonderful resonance with audiences both within and outside New Mexico. An anthology of his plays has tremendous cultural significance because it specifically offers Latino theatre artists' opportunities to develop and explore characters from a region seldom seen in popular culture.""- Marcos Martinez Professor of Theatre, California State University in San Marcos, Department of Visual and Performing Arts""Rudy's work in the theatre gives life to people of all backgrounds but focuses on the descendants of the first colonizers: Mexican, Spanish, Native American and African. His Mestizo characters shine with that indescribable twinkle every New Mexican enjoys as living inhabitants of the Land of Enchantment. Without fanfare, without denying the beauty of other cultures and regions of these United States, Rudy give a voice to the rich, the poor, the landed and the landless with dignity and humor.""- Jorge A. Huerta Professor Emeritus, Theatre and Dance Department, University of California San Diego