Marjorie Agosín

Marjorie Agosín is a poet, writer, human rights activist, and professor. Born in Maryland, she was raised in Chile, and in the early 1970s moved back to the United States to escape Chile’s military coup. She earned a doctorate at Indiana University in 1982 and teaches Spanish language and Latin American literature at Wellesley College. Agosín won the Letras de Oro Prize for poetry and the Good Neighbor Award, both in 1995.