Graciela Lucero-Hammer is a Professor Emerita of Spanish at Salem College, Winston-Salem, NC. A native of Córdoba, Argentina, Lucero-Hammer specializes in the study and translation of contemporary Latin American writers. Her poems “Ser” and “Máscaras” have been published in Letras Femeninas, a journal of the International Association of Hispanic Women Writers (2000, 2007).