by Abel Salas Born in Chicago on June 15, 1953, Ana Castillo is a universally celebrated poet, novelist, short fiction writer, essayist, editor, playwright, translator and independent scholar. Her novel, Sapogonia , was a New York Times “Notable Book of the Year” and her first work of fiction, The Mixquiahuala Letters , received an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation. Other award-winning and bestselling novels include Give It to Me, which was the 2014 winner of the Best Bisexual Fiction from the LAMBDA Foundation, So Far From God , The Guardians and Peel My Love Like an Onion .  Massacre of the Dreamers , her classic, award-winning collection of essays celebrated its 20th anniversary with an updated edition released in 2014 and her award winning novel in verse, Watercolor Women, Opaque Men will be re-released in fall 2016 by Northwestern University Press in a deluxe new edition. Calling her “the most daring and experimental of Latino novelists,” Com...