Deborah Paredez

Deborah Paredez is a poet, scholar, and critic whose work explores memory, the legacies of war, and feminist elegy. She is author of the critical study Selenidad: Selena, Latinos, and the Performance of Memory and of the poetry collection This Side of Skin. A co-founder of CantoMundo and a Professor of Creative Writing and Ethnic Studies at Columbia University, she lives in New York City.