A native of San Francisco, Francisco Aragón is the author of Puerta del Sol (Bilingual Press) and Glow of Our Sweat (Scapegoat Press), as well as the editor of The Wind Shifts: New Latino Poetry (University of Arizona Press). A former long-time resident of Spain, he is the director of Letras Latinas—the literary program of the Institute for Latino Studies at the University of Notre Dame, and currently resides in Arlington, VA.