Marjorie Agosin is an award winning poet, and Human Rights activist. Her most recent book a novel for Young Adults I Lived in Butterfly Hill has won numerous awards among them the Pura Belpre medal given by the ALA.  In poetry  she has published The Light of  Desire, Swan Isle Press and Ana  a memoir for  YA about Anne Frank. She is the Luella Lamer Slaner professor of Latin American Studies at Wellesley College.