Autor: Marc Zimmerman

Emeritus Professor at the University of Illinois, Chicago and the University of Houston, Marc Zimmerman worked in Nicaragua’s Ministerio de Cultura in the first year of the Sandinista Revolution. Co-editor of Nicaragua in Revolution, and Nicaragua in Reconstruction and at War, he also edited Ernesto Cardenal’s Vuelos de Victoria/Flights of Victory, and co-wrote Literature and Politics in the Central American Revolutions with John Beverley. He has also written and edited several other books on Central American politics, literature and art, and has recently published a book of memoir fiction, Sandino on the Border, very much related to this essay. Married to Esther Soler of Quebradillas, Puerto Rico, he has taught at the Universidad de Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, and has spent extended periods every year for over thirty years between Quebradillas and San Juan. His book, Defending their Own in the Cold: U.S. Puerto Ricans and their Cultural Turns (2011) will appear in paperback in 2021.