Ana Consuelo Matiella, MA, was born in Nogales, Sonora, Mexico and raised in Ambos Nogales, on the U.S./Mexico border by a clan of Spaniards and Mexicans. She is author of The Truth About Alicia and Other Stories (University of Arizona Press), and of various books on multicultural education, including Positively Different, Cultural Pride, and La Familia (ETR Associates). She has been a political columnist for The Santa Fe New Mexican for over 10 years, and her work has been anthologized in Walking the Twilight: Women Writers of the Southwest (Northland Press) and in Camino del Sol: Fifteen Years of Latino and Latina Writing (University of Arizona Press).
