Lydia Zacklin, Venezuelan author of La narrativa de Guillermo Meneses (1985); also several essays published in Revista Nacional de Cultura (Universidad Central de Venezuela), Revista de Cultura Hispánica (1993), Vuelta (1988), Revista Iberoamericana (1997). She has been a guest editor of issues on Venezuelan literature for Translation, Review, and Círculo de Cultura Panamericano. She is a diplomat in New York City.