Alicia Partnoy
Bio:
Poet, memoirist, scholar, and human rights activist Alicia Partnoy is the author, translator or editor of 11 books and a poetry chapbook. She is better known for The Little School: Tales of Disappearance and Survival, which was evidence in the trials against the genocide perpetrators that terrorized Argentina in the 1970’s. This literary account of her experience as a disappeared in her homeland was published in Spanish, English, French, and Bengali.
Alicia Partnoy served on the boards of directors of PEN West and Roadwork, and was Vice President of Amnesty International U.S.A. A professor at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, Partnoy presides over Proyecto VOS-Voices of Survivors.
The upcoming film "Kiss of the Spider Woman" is set in a prison during an era of state terrorism in Argentina. A survivor of that brutal military dictatorship reminds us that accountability is possible.
