Norma Elia Cantú, currently serves as the Norine R. and T. Frank Murchison Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Trinity University in San Antonio. The author of the award-winning _Canícula: Snapshots of a Girlhood en la Frontera_, she publishes in the areas of folklore, literary studies, women’s studies and border studies. As editor of two book series: Literatures of the Americas (Palgrave) and Rio Grande/Rio Bravo (Texas A&M Press), she fosters the publication of critical scholarship. She is cofounder of CantoMundo, a space for Latin@ poets and belongs to the Macondo Writers Workshop. Her most recent publications include Cabañuelas and Meditación Fronteriza, Poems of Love, Life and Labor.