Cordelia Candelaria is the author of Cursing Fujimori and Other Andean Reflections, Arroyos to the Heart, Seeking the Perfect Game: Baseball in American Literature, Chicano Poetry, A Critical Introduction, Ojo de la Cueva/Cave Springs, and dozens of published articles, reviews and poems. She also is editor or co-editor of 11 books, most recently the Encyclopedia of Latino Popular Culture, The Legacy of 1848 and 1898, Women Poets of the Americas. Dr. Candelaria is a Regents' Professor of English and Chicana and Chicano Studies at Arizona State University and Director of Research for ASU's National Center for Community Development and Civil Rights.