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Margaret Randall
Margaret Randall is a poet, essayist, photographer, feminist and social activist. She was born in New York City in 1936, and lived for many years in Spain, Mexico, Cuba, and Nicaragua. She also had formative experiences in Peru and in North Vietnam during the last months of the U.S. war in that country. She returned to the U.S. in 1984, but shortly after was ordered deported under the McCarran-Walter Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952. In Mexico, while married to a Mexican citizen, she had taken out Mexican citizenship in 1967, thereby losing her U.S. citizenship. Under McCarran-Walter, the government claimed opinions in several of her books were "against the good order and happiness of the United States." With the support of many well-known writers and others, Randall won her case in 1989, and with it full restoration of citizenship. She now lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico, with her partner of many years, painter Barbara Byers. She travels widely to read and lecture. Among her best-known books are Cuban Women Now Sandino’s Daughters Sandino’s Daughters Revisited, and When I Look into the Mirror and see You: Women, Terror and Resistance (all oral history with essay). Recent books include To Change the World: My Years in Cuba (memoir, with photos), Narrative of Power, and First Laugh (essay), and Stones Witness , Their Backs to the Sea, My Town Something's Wrong with the Cornfields" , and  Ruins (poems, with photos), and "As If the Empty Chair / Como Si la Silla Vacia"  (poems in tribute to the disappeared of Latin America, in bilingual edition, translations by Leandro Katz and Diego Guerra).  Forthcoming books include: More than Things (essays) and The Rhizome as a Field of Broken Bones'' (poetry).	The desert of the U.S. Southwest is her spiritual home, and ancient ruins--here and in other parts of the world—are increasingly her greatest source of inspiration. Visit her web page at www.margaretrandall.org for a more detailed biography, curriculum vita, up-to-date information on her books and four ever-evolving portfolios of her photographic images, as well as news about upcoming readings.