Although Michael F. Capobianco has a Ph. D. in mathematics, he has been writing fiction and poetry and has been doing research in twentieth-century Latin American literature for some twenty years. He has published several short stories and poems and has written four novellas and a novella-length religious work. Currently working on a translation of Dante´s Purgatorio, he has done other translations from Spanish and Italian. A children’s book, Abdul and the Bright Strings is in production. At present he is Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at St. John´s University in New York.
Gloria Shaffer Melendez is a professor of Latin-American literature at Brigham Young University. She has published translations in both English and Spanish and has done translations of pre-columbian Nahuatl literature. Her research with Latin American modernist writers led her to the discovery of the rich fantastic prose of Amado Nervo and has provided the basis for many articles on this subject.
