Chantel Acevedo is the author of Love and Ghost Letters, winner of the Latino International Book Award, and A Falling Star, winner of the Doris Bakwin Award. Her most recent novel, The Distant Marvels, will be published in April 2015. She studied writing at the University of Miami with the late Lester Goran. She is associate professor of English at Auburn University, Alabama, where she founded the Auburn Writers Conference and edits the Southern Humanities Review.