Patricia Herrera is an assistant professor of theater at the University of Richmond. Her book manuscript, under contract with the University of Michigan Press, critically examines the work of the female artists of the Nuyorican Poets Café between 1973 and 2010. She is the co-founder and co-director of the Rubí Theater Company in New York City, an intergenerational ensemble that produces original plays throughout the metropolitan area and conducts performance workshops in schools and theater festivals. The group appears on Dan Zanes’s Nueva York (2008), Catch That Train (2006 Grammy Award Winning CD for Best Children’s Musical Album), House Party (2003), and Night Time (2002), in which she was a lyricist and rapper. She is currently working on Remnants, a musical co-written by José Joaquín Garcia.