Lauro Flores is Professor of Chicano and Latin American literatures and cultures at the University of Washington, Seattle, where he is currently Chair of the Department of American Ethnic Studies. His main teaching and research interests are in Latin American and Chicano/a literature, culture, and film. He holds an adjunct appointment in Spanish and Portuguese Studies and is affiliate faculty in Latin American Studies, Jackson School of International Studies. During his tenure at the University of Washington, he has been director of the Center for Chicano Studies, Chair of Latin American Studies, and Special Assistant to the Provost. Winner of a 2007 UW Distinguished Teaching Award, Dr. Flores has been visiting professor at Stanford University and UCLA. He was editor of the legendary journals The Americas Review and Metamorfosis: Northwest Chicano Magazine of Art and Literature, and has served on many editorial boards. His publications include: The Floating Borderlands: Twenty-Five Years of U.S. Hispanic Literature (1998), which won an American Book Award; a critical edition of Luis Pérez's autobiographical novel, El Coyote/The Rebel (2000); Alfredo Arreguín: Patterns of Dreams and Nature / Diseños, sueños y naturaleza (2002), which was listed as a Kiriyama Pacific Rim Prize notable book; José Luis Rodríguez: Myth, Magic & Memory/Mito, magia y memoria (2009), Fulgencio Lazo: Reconstruction of Memory/ Reconstucción de la memoria (2010); and A Arreguín: Correspondencias (2015). A Ford Foundation doctoral and post-doctoral fellow, he served for many years as Regional Liaison for the Ford Foundation Fellowships for Minorities Program. In 2008, he received The Tomás Rivera Lifetime Achievement Award from the University of California, Riverside.