Claudia Cavallin is a journalist, writer, and professor in the Department of Languages and Literatures at Oklahoma State University. In Venezuela, she taught for many years first at the Universidad de Los Andes and then at the Universidad Simón Bolívar. She is the author of the books Ciudades de película: Ficciones urbanas del cine, la literatura y la música and Espectros de la palabra. La metáfora en Borges: los juegos del lenguaje que hacen posible la configuración de un universo de imágenes recursivas (2012). Between 2012 and 2015 she was director of the academic journal Estudios: Revista de Investigaciones Literarias y Culturales. Many of her interviews with writers have been published in Latin American Literature Today and she also collaborates with the Central American magazine Carátula. https://ccavallin.wixsite.com/website