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A Caribbean-born, Afro Indigenous daughter of Boriké, Sandra Guzmán is an award-winning author, editor, documentary filmmaker, and anthologist whose work explores identity, land, memory, race, coloniality, spirituality, culture, and gender. She is the editor of the landmark anthology Daughters of Latin America: An International Anthology of Writing by Latine Women (2023), featuring the texts of 140 women from fifty nations who write in more than two dozen languages (see WLT, Nov. 2023, 68). She produced and was the interviewer for The Pieces I Am, the acclaimed documentary film about the art and life of her literary mentor, Nobel laureate Toni Morrison. Her essays have appeared in Audubon magazine and the anthologies So We Can Know, edited by Aracelis Girmay, and Some of My Best Friends, edited by Emily Bernard. Her work has appeared in CNN, NBC News, and El Diario / La Prensa, among others, and her documentary work has aired on PBS for American Masters, HBO, and Netflix. She won an Emmy for a program on the US Cuba embargo while working as a producer at Telemundo. She is presently associate editor at Studio Gannet.