Gabriela Baeza Ventura is Associate Professor of Hispanic Literature in the Hispanic Studies at the University of Houston, where she teaches courses on US Latina/o literature for graduate and undergraduate students.  She is also Executive Editor for Arte Público Press, where she supervises the production of up to thirty books a year.  Her publications include a monograph on the representation of Mexican women in Spanish-language newspapers in the United States, two anthologies on US Latina/o literature, and an edited volume on the poetry of a renowned Chicana poet, Angela de Hoyos. She has also translated over 30 books for children and young adults from Spanish to English. She and her colleague, Carolina Villarroel, were recently awarded a Mellon Foundation planning grant to start the first program on US Latino/o digital humanities.