Lydia Cabrera (1899–1991) was a Cuban ethnographer, literary activist, and author of numerous books on Afro-Cuban culture, including El Monte.Ivor L. Miller is senior lecturer in the Department of History and International Studies at the University of Calabar, Cross River State, Nigeria. He also holds a research fellowship from the African Studies Center at Boston University and is author of Voice of the Leopard: African Secret Societies and Cuba and Aerosol Kingdom: Subway Painters of New York City and coeditor (with P. González Gómes-Cásseres) of Sacred Language of the Abakuá, all published by University Press of Mississippi.P. González Gómes-Cásseres is senior lecturer emerita in the Spanish and Portuguese Department at Smith College. She is author of La sartén por el mango: Encuentro de escritoras latinoamericanas and Confluencias en México.

Lydia Cabrera (1899–1991) was a Cuban ethnographer, literary activist, and author of numerous books on Afro-Cuban culture, including El Monte.Ivor L. Miller is senior lecturer in the Department of History and International Studies at the University of Calabar, Cross River State, Nigeria. He also holds a research fellowship from the African Studies Center at Boston University and is author of Voice of the Leopard: African Secret Societies and Cuba and Aerosol Kingdom: Subway Painters of New York City and coeditor (with P. González Gómes-Cásseres) of Sacred Language of the Abakuá, all published by University Press of Mississippi.P. González Gómes-Cásseres is senior lecturer emerita in the Spanish and Portuguese Department at Smith College. She is author of La sartén por el mango: Encuentro de escritoras latinoamericanas and Confluencias en México.

Lydia Cabrera (1899–1991) was a Cuban ethnographer, literary activist, and author of numerous books on Afro-Cuban culture, including El Monte.Ivor L. Miller is senior lecturer in the Department of History and International Studies at the University of Calabar, Cross River State, Nigeria. He also holds a research fellowship from the African Studies Center at Boston University and is author of Voice of the Leopard: African Secret Societies and Cuba and Aerosol Kingdom: Subway Painters of New York City and coeditor (with P. González Gómes-Cásseres) of Sacred Language of the Abakuá, all published by University Press of Mississippi.P. González Gómes-Cásseres is senior lecturer emerita in the Spanish and Portuguese Department at Smith College. She is author of La sartén por el mango: Encuentro de escritoras latinoamericanas and Confluencias en México.