Born in 1952 in Puerto Rico, Judith Ortiz Cofer would go on to become a renowned writer, whose work spanned numerous genres. After her family immigrated to New Jersey when Cofer was 4, they again relocated to Augusta, Georgia in 1967. Cofer would...

Judith Ortiz Cofer's two collections of short fiction, formally titled The Latin Deli: Telling the Lives of Barrio Women (1993) and An Island Like You: Stories of the Barrio (1995), follows the stories Puerto Rican women and teenagers living in...