Faculty


Magda Bogin
Director

New York-based Magda Bogin is a novelist, translator and journalist who has taught in the graduate writing programs of Columbia, Princeton and City College and, most recently, in Mexico. She is the author of Natalya, God's Messenger (Scribner) and has published numerous translations, including Isabel Allende's House of the Spirits. Fluent in Spanish, English and French, she is the founder and director of Under the Volcano International.

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Teresa Bello
Site Coordinator

Teresa Bello was born in Tepoztlán, where she and her husband Pedro, a retired schoolteacher, have a stationery store and a small crafts stall. She is something of a local celebrity, working with many grass roots organizations and always ready to help where help is needed. She and her family provide invaluable logistical support to Under the Volcano and serve as the guides for our group climb to the pyramid atop the Tepozteco.


Carolyn Forché

Carolyn Forché is the much heralded author of four books of poetry: Blue Hour (HarperCollins, 2004); The Angel of History (1994), which received the Los Angeles Times Book Award; The Country Between Us (1982), which received the Poetry Society of America's Alice Fay di Castagnola Award, and was the Lamont Poetry Selection of The Academy of American Poets; and Gathering the Tribes (1976), which was selected for the Yale Series of Younger Poets by Stanley Kunitz. She is also the editor of Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness (1993). She teaches in the MFA Program at George Mason University in Virginia.

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Mary Morris

Mary Morris is the author of six novels, including Revenge, Acts of God, The Night Sky and House Arrest, four travel memoirs, including Nothing to Declare: Memoirs of a Woman Traveling Alone and Angels & Aliens: A Journey West, and three collections of short stories. The recipient of the Rome Prize in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Morris teaches writing at Sarah Lawrence College.

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RECENT FACULTY

Russell Banks
Breyten Breytenbach
Sandra Cisneros
Jessica Hagedorn
Joyce Johnson
Pura López Colomé
Grace Paley
Tomás Segovia
Juan Tovar
Chuck Wachtel

RECENT GUEST READERS & PRESENTERS

Jean Franco
Salvador Guzmán
Edith Lara
Robert Nichols
Alberto Palacios
Mark Probst

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