Inmaculada Lara-Bonilla is an assistant professor of Latin American and Caribbean Studies in the Humanities Department at Eugenio María de Hostos Community College, City University of New York. She has also taught at Harvard University, Oberlin College, and Syracuse University. Lara-Bonilla has published and lectured widely on transnational US Latina/o contemporary literature, turn of the century and post-movement Latina/o literature, self-referential writing, theories of identity, and feminist thought. Her research has received awards such as Harvard University’s Real Colegio Complutense Doctoral Fellowship, a PSC-CUNY research grant, and a CUNY Faculty Fellowship Publication award. Her work has appeared in academic journals such as Latino Studies and New York History and edited volumes such as American Secrets: The Politics and Poetics of Secrecy in the Literature and Culture of the United States (2011) and Gale Researcher. Lara-Bonilla is also the editor of “Stirred Ground: Non-Fiction Writing by Contemporary Latina and Latin American Women,” issue no. 11 of the Hostos Review/Revista Hostosiana (December 2014). As a creative writer, she has published in journals such as Stone Canoe, Literal Magazine, and Vice Versa.