Steven White

Steven White, co-editor with Luis Eduardo Luna of Ayahuasca Reader: Enconters with the Amazon’s Sacred Vine was educated at Williams College and the University of Oregon where he received his Ph.D. in Spanish and Latin American literature. He has published more than a dozen books of poetry, translations and essays that include bilingual anthologies of work by writers from Brazil, Chile, and Nicaragua. Living and working in these and other countries gave him a deep appreciation of the marvelous diversity of literature from the Americas. He has been teaching at Saint Lawrence University in Canton, New York, since 1987, and is one of the co-founders of its Caribbean and Latin American Studies Program.