Claudia Cavallin is a professor in the Department of Languages and Literatures at Oklahoma State University. She has worked tirelessly to promote Latin American voices in a range of print and digital media, including the magazines World Literature Today, Latin American Literature Today, and Trópico Absoluto, as well as in the Papel Literario of the Venezuelan newspaper El Nacional. Cavallin has published more than forty interviews in English and Spanish in the last five years.
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