Kudos to newly-tenured Associate Professor of Spanish Gabriella Gutierrez y Muhs at Seattle University, Washington. Gabriella is a gifted teacher, researcher, and poet from Watsonville in Santa Cruz County, California. Her current academic projects include Rebozos de Palabras: An Helena MarÃa Viramontes Reader and the forthcoming Chilean and Chicana Authors: Chicanas, Chilenas and Other Cultural Exiles (Lexington Books). Her works of poetry include The Plastic Book (CD Rom) and the poetry collection A Most Improbable Life (Finishing Line Press, 2003).