Carmen Haydée Rivera Vega is a professor in the Department of English, College of Humanities, at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras campus. She holds a Ph.D. in American Literature, with an emphasis on Multiethnic Literatures of the United States, from Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts. Her teaching and research interests include Diasporic Puerto Rican Writers in the US, Contemporary US Latinx Literature, Literature of Caribbean Migration, and Women’s Studies. She has served as Interim Chair, ESL Coordinator, and Graduate Program Coordinator for the Department of English, College of Humanities; Dean of Academic Affairs in the Office of the Dean of Graduate Studies and Research; and Dean of Academic Affairs and Interim Chancellor for the UPR-Rio Piedras campus. Her publications include two co-edited collections of essays, Writing Off the Hyphen: New Perspectives on the Literature of the Puerto Rican Diaspora (University of Washington Press, 2008) and Cuba and Puerto Rico: Transdisciplinary Approaches to History, Literature, and Culture (University of Florida Press, 2023). She is also the author of a critical biography on Chicana writer Sandra Cisneros, Border Crossings and Beyond: The Life and Works of Sandra Cisneros (Praeger Press, 2009) and a collection of interviews, Diasporic Journeys: Interviews with Puerto Rican Writers in the United States (CENTRO Press, 2023). Additional critical articles under her authorship appear in journals such as The Ethnic Studies Review; CENTRO Journal; New West Indian Guide; Latino/a Research Review; Caribbean Studies; Camino Real – Estudios de las Hispanidades Norteamericanas; Op-Cit – Revista del Centro de Investigaciones Históricas; Revista Umbral; El Sol – Revista de la Asociación de Maestros de PR, and Sargasso – A Journal of Caribbean Literature, Language and Culture, among others. Dr. Rivera Vega is currently working on an anthology of contemporary diasporic Puerto Rican writers and also a collection of writings (essays, poetry, short stories) on the theme of return migration to Puerto Rico.