Eduardo R. del Rio was born in Havana, Cuba and grew up in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He is the editor of The Prentice Hall Anthology of Latino Literature, as well as the author of One Island Many Voices by Arizona Press and Cubarican by Mouthfeel Press. His collection The Lost Train and other Stories will be released this fall by FlowerSong Press. His poems and stories have appeared in Pleiades, The Bellingham Review, Voices de la Luna and various other journals. He lives in the southern border town of Brownsville TX.