Ana-Maurine Lara is the author of the novel Erzulie’s Skirt, which was selected as a Lambda Literary finalist in 2006, and of a second (unpublished) novel, Anacaona's Daughter, which won Third Place Prize in the National Latino/Chicano Literary Prizes. Her poetry and short fiction has appeared in several literary journals including Blithe House Quarterly, The Encyclopedia Project, Sable LitMag and Torch Magazine. She has received awards from the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, Puffin Foundation, the Brooklyn Arts Council and PEN Northwest. Lara is a Cave Canem Fellow and a member of The Austin Project, a collaborative workshop between artists, activists and scholars out of UT-Austin. She coordinates an oral history project, We are the Magicians, the Path Breakers and the Dream Makers (http://themagicmakers.blogspot.com), documenting the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender artists, and she is also a co-author of bustingbinaries.com, a website dedicated to addressing binary thinking in U.S. based social justice movements. For more information, visit her web site at www.zorashorse.com.