Oakland, CA - Carlota Caulfield, Mills College professor of Spanish and Spanish American Studies, has published A Mapmaker's Diary, a bilingual collection of published and unpublished poems.

"My poems are about identity and memory," said Caulfield. "They talk about journeys into my family history, into painting, into music. The speakers in my poems are voyagers in endless transit."

Translated by Mary G. Berg in collaboration with the author, the collection is the author's 10th published work of poetry. The book is published by White Pine Press in New York.

"Carlota Caulfield has given us a work of great sensuality and rare luminosity, suffused with an intelligence that is both playful and meditative," said Mills Visiting Professor in Creative Writing and Cuban-American novelist Cristina Garcia.

"Her pleasures and discoveries become ours; her tender, often sly observations are crafted for inheritance. But it is Caulfield's devotion to the daily sacred that helps inspire our own," Garcia said.

A professor at Mills since 1992, Caulfield is known for her erudite and multifaceted writing. She has published nine poetry collections. Her numerous writing awards include the first Spanish American International Poetry Dulce Maria Loynaz prize in 2002.

Her other honors include the Italian International Poetry Ultimo Novecento Prize in 1988; an Honorary Mention in the Poetry Latino Literature Prize awarded by the Latin American Institute in New York in 1997; the Premio Internazionale Riccardo Marchi-Torre di Calafuria Prize in Italy in 1995; and a Mención de Honor in the Federico García Lorca Poetry Prize in 1994.

At Mills College, Caulfield teaches literature and Spanish courses on Latin-American women writers, Hispanic poetry, and U.S-Latino culture. She also recently co-edited A Companion to U.S. Latino Literatures with Darién J. Davis, associate professor of history and Latin American studies at Middlebury College in Vermont. The work is used in introductory Latino literature and history classes at colleges and universities nationwide. 

Caulfield received a Licenciatura in history and philosophy from the University of Havana; an MA in Spanish and Latin American literature from San Francisco State University; and a PhD in Spanish from Tulane University.

Caulfield was born in Havana, Cuba. She has lived in Dublin, Zurich, London, Barcelona, New York, New Orleans, San Francisco, and Berkeley.

White Pine Press has published Nobel Prize laureates William Golding, Pablo Neruda, Juan Ramon Jimenez, Gabriela Mistral, and winners of the American Book Award, the National Book Award, and the Pulitzer Prize.

Mills College is a nationally renowned, independent liberal arts college offering innovative degree programs to approximately 900 undergraduate women and 500 graduate women and men. Ranked one of the top colleges in the West by U.S. News & World Report and one of the Best 366 Colleges by the Princeton Review, Mills provides a dynamic liberal arts education fostering women's leadership, social responsibility, and creativity. Nestled in the foothills of Oakland, California, on 135 lush acres, Mills was recently selected by the New York Times as one of three outstanding California colleges for students to consider.

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