© 1998 by the University of New Mexico Press All rights reserved. First editionFor permission to publish or reproduce the material which appears in this anthology, acknowledgment is made to the following sources: | | "The Legacy" by Carmen Luz Gorriti, translated by Kathy S. Leonard, first appeared in The Antigonish Review 101 ( 1995): 113-16. | | | "The Señorita. Didn't Teach Me" by Bethzabé Guevara, translated by Kathy S. Leonard, first appeared in Critical Matrix: Princeton Journal of Women, Gender, and Culture 9.1 ( 1995): 107-20. | | | "Mery Yagual (Secretary)" by Mónica Ortiz Salas, translated by Kathy S. Leonard, first appeared in Feminist Studies 21.1 ( spring 1995): 103-13. | | | "Bibliography of Short Story Collections by or Including Women Authors from Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru", compiled by Kathy S. Leonard, first appeared in an earlier and much reduced version in Critical Matrix: Princeton Journal of Women, Gender, and Culture 9.1 ( 1995): 117-120. | | | "Prayer to the Goddesses", by Virginia Ayllón Soria, translated by Kathy S. Leonard, first appeared in Calyx: A Journal of Art and Literature by Women 17.3 ( 1997). | | | "Before It's Time", by Fabiola Solis de King, translated by Kathy S. Leonard, first appeared in Xavier Review 17.1 ( 1997): 23-27. | | | "Between Clouds and Lizards", by Gaby Cevasco, translated by Kathy S. Leonard, first appeared in The Antigonish Review 108 ( Winter 1997): 105-7. | Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Fire from the Andes: short fiction by women from Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru / edited and translated by Susan E. Benner and Kathy S. Leonard: foreword by Marjorie Agosin. — 1st ed. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. ). ISBN 0-8263-1824-X. — ISBN 0-8263-1825-8 (pbk.) 1. Bolivian fiction—Women authors—Translations into English. 2. Short stories. Bolivian—Translations into English. 3. Bolivian fiction—20th century0-Translations into English. 4. Ecuadorian fiction—Women authors—Translations into English. 5. Short stories, Ecuadorian—Translations into English. 6. Ecuadorian fiction—20th century—Translations into English. 7. Peruvian fiction—Women authors—Translations into English. 8. Short stories, Peruvian—Translations into English. 9. Peruvian fiction—20th century—Translations into English. I.Benner, Susan E. (Susan Elizabeth), 1957— II. Leonard, Kathy S., 1952— PQ7816.F57 1997 863'.01089287'098—DC21 97-4746 CIP -iv- |