Helena María Viramontes is the author of the novels Their Dogs Came with
Them and Under the Feet of Jesus, as well as the collection The Moths and
Other Stories. A 2007 Ford Fellow in Literature, she has also received the John
Dos Passos Prize for Literature and a Spirit Award from the California Latino
Legislative Caucus. Viramontes is Goldwin Smith Professor of English at Cornell
University in Ithaca, New York, where she is at work on a new novel.