The Editors: Par Kumaraswami completed her doctorate at the University of Wolverhampton in 2004. She is a Lecturer in Latin American Cultural Studies at the University of Manchester. She has recently embarked on a 3-year collaborative project on `Literature, politics and readership in revolutionary Cubä, and has published several articles on self-writing, cultural policy in Cuba and testimonial writing. Niamh Thornton received her doctorate from the University of Dublin, Trinity College in 2003. She has published several articles on women¿s writing and Latin American and Spanish film, and is currently preparing a monograph on the contemporary Mexican war story. She is lecturer in Hispanic Studies and Film at the University of Ulster.