Ana Mar¿Shua¿s work Microfictions and her novel Death as a Side Effect are available from the University of Nebraska Press. Andrea G. Labinger is a professor of Spanish emerita from the University of La Verne in Southern California. Her many translations include Shua¿s Death as a Side Effect , Alicia Steimberg¿s The Rainforest (Nebraska, 2006), and Call Me Magdalena (Nebraska, 2001).