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Quique Aviles, a contributor to How I Learned English, is a DC-based poet, actor and community activist. Born in El Salvador, his work is dedicated to addressing social issues through performance and poetry.

Sindy Benavides is the Director of Gubernatorial Appointments and Latino Liaison for the Commonwealth of Virginia. She immigrated with her family to the United States when she was one and began to learn English in third grade while in ESL.

H. G. Carrillo, a contributor to How I Learned English, is the author of the novel, Loosing My Espanish. His short stories have appeared in Kenyon Review, The Iowa Review, Glimmer Train, and others. He teaches at The George Washington University.

Tom Miller, editor of How I Learned English, writes extraordinary stories about ordinary people throughout Latin America and the American West. He has contributed to Smithsonian, the New Yorker, the New York Times, LIFE and Natural History. This is his tenth book.