Barbara de la Cuesta has one published novel, The Spanish Teacher, winner of the Gival Press Novel Award in 2007. She has published stories in The Texas Quarterly, The New Orleans Review, and The New American Review, and received Fellowships from the Ragdale Foundation, The Virginia Center, and The Millay Colony where she completed Rosamundo. Though she now lives in New Jersey where she still teaches languages, for many years she lived and taught English as a Second Language in the city of Waltham, Massachusetts. There she was fortunate to have an opportunity, to come to know some extraordinary students among the latest waves of immigrants. As well, through her work in an elder facility, she became acquainted with older immigrants retired from the historic woolen mill and the watch factory. A fellowship from the Massachusetts Artists Foundation enabled her cobble together a living from these part-time jobs and have time to take notes on her surroundings and begin Rosamundo.