Susan Griss teaches on the faculty of Bank Street College of Education, Lesley University, and in the education department of the Kennedy Center. She is also the co-director of the Arts and Curriculum Institute at Skidmore. Rooted in her background as a dancer and choreographer, her successful methods of teaching elementary curriculum through creative movement have been presented to principals, classroom teachers, teaching artists and pre-service teachers throughout the U.S. As a veteran teaching artist, Ms. Griss has been working with children in the public schools for more than twenty years. Visit her website at www.mindsinmotion.orgJulie Tilsner is a writer whose articles have appeared… in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Glamour, Parenting magazine, and many on-line venues.
Robert Fedorchek is a professor emeritus of modern languages and literatures at Fairfield University (Connecticut). He has published fifteen books of translations of nineteenth-century Spanish literature, including three other novels by Juan Valera. He has also translated numerous fairy tales by Valera, Antonio de Trueba, Cecilia Bohl de Faber, and Concha Castroviejo for Marvels & Tales: Journal of Fairy-Tale Studies. Susan McKenna is an assistant professor of Spanish at the University of Delaware, where she specializes in nineteenth-century Spanish literature. She is the author of Crafting the Female Subject: Narrative Innovation in the Short Fiction of Emilia Pardo Bazan.