Margaret Randall is a feminist poet and photographer whose most recent titles are RUINS and AS IF THE EMPTY CHAIR / COMO SI LA SILLA VACIA (poetry) and FIRST LAUGH (essay). Forthcoming are THE RHIZOME AS A FIELD OF BROKEN BONES (poetry) and MORE THAN THINGS (essay). For a quarter century she lived in Latin America (Mexico, Cuba, and Nicaragua), and when she returned to the U.S. in 1984 she was ordered deported because of opinions expressed in some of her books. She won her case in 1989. She now lives in Albuquerque with her partner of more than 25 years, the painter Barbara Byers, and travels widely to read, teach and lecture.