Rachel's Song

Miguel Barnet (born January 27, 1940) is a Cuban writer, novelist and ethnographer. He studied sociology at the University of Havana, under Fernando Ortiz , the pioneer of Cuban anthropology. Barnet is best known for his Biografia de un cimmarón (1966), the life of Esteban Montejo, a former slave who lived as a maroon after escaping slavery in the Caribbean.  In 2009, Barnet was re-elected to a UNESCO committee on the study of Afro-Cuban culture.

W. Nick Hill is an American teacher and translator. Hill was a professor and the Director of Latin American and Caribbean studies at Farfield University, until his retirement in 2005. He currently lives in Port Townsend, Washington.