Rudolfo Anaya is the acclaimed author of Bless Me, Ultima and many other books.
Francisco A. Lomelí, a senior scholar of Chicana/o and Latin American literature, is a professor in both the Chicana/o Studies and the Spanish and Portuguese Departments at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Author of numerous books, Enrique R. Lamadrid is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Spanish from the University of New Mexico.