Mirtha N. Quintanales was born in Havana, Cuba, and immigrated to the United States in 1962. She received her PhD in Anthropology in 1987 from Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. Among her most recent publication is Telling to Live: Latina Feminist Testimonios, Duke University Press, 2001, co-edited with the Latina Feminist Group. Telling to Live was awarded the 2002 Myers Outstanding Book Award presented by the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights in North America.