Margaret Randall (New York, 1936) is a poet, essayist, oral historian, translator, photographer, and social activist. She lived in Latin America for 23 years (in Mexico, Cuba, and Nicaragua). With Mexican poet Sergio Mondrag&ó n she founded, and from 1962 to 1969 co-edited, El Corno Emplumado / The Plumed Horn, a bilingual literary quarterly that published some of the best new work of the sixties. She is the author of over 150 books, and is considered nothing less than a counter-cultural hero and feminist icon.