Marjorie Agosín Marjorie Agosín is an award-winning poet, essayist, fiction writer, activist, and professor. She is a prolific author: her published books, including those she has written as well as those she has edited, number over eighty. Marjorie has received theLetras de Oro Prize for her poetry, presented by Spain's Ministry of Culture to writers of Hispanic heritage living in the United States. Her writings about, and humanitarian work for, women in Chile have been the focus of feature articles in The New York Times, The Christian Science Monitor, and Ms. Magazine. Marjorie teaches Spanish language and Latin American literature at Wellesley College, USA. She has earned notability for her outspokenness on women's rights in Chile and the United Nations has honored her for her work on human rights. The Chilean government awarded Marjorie the Gabriela Mistral Medal of Honor for Life Achievement in 2002. And in 2013 she was awarded the Dr. Fritz Redlich Global Mental Health and Human Rights Award because of her outstanding human rights work, contributing to the healing of traumatized nations and communities. Read More Read Less