Marjorie Agosín Marjorie Agosin has been teaching at Wellesley College for more than thirty years. Apart from being an academic, she is also a poet, a novelist, and a human rights activist. Considered one of the most prolific and versatile writers in the Americas, se has been recognized by the United Nations with the Human Rights Leadership Award, and by the Chilean government with the Gabriela Mistral prize. She is also a poet laureate for the Harvard Refugee Trauma Program. She is the author of more than fifty books that include narrative poetry, theatre and memoirs. Among her most renowned books are I Lived on Butterfly Hill, winner of the Pura Belpre Prize, and her most recent collection of poetry, Las Islas Blancas (The White Islands). Agosin divides her time between Concon Chile, Wellesley Massachusetts, and the coast of Maine. Read More Read Less