Rita E. Urquijo-Ruiz is a Mexicana/Chicana fronteriza queer educator, translator, writer, activist, and performer from Sonora, Mexico, and southern California. She is a professor of Spanish as well as Chicanx studies, queer studies, and global Latinx studies at Trinity University. She authored Wild Tongues: Transnational Mexican Popular Culture. Her story “First Visit” is about being previously undocumented appears in the anthology Somewhere We Are Human: Authentic Voices on Migration, Survival, and New Beginnings.
The University of Arizona Press
