Diane De Anda, PhD, UCLA professor emerita, has edited four books on ethnically diverse populations and published numerous scholarly articles. She has also published shoirt stories, essays, satires, poetry, and a collection of flash fiction. She has published children's poetry, eight children's books, which have won multiple awards, and has six children's books scheduled for publication. Her bicultural background, as a third-generation Latina, is often evident in her work.








