The Editor's Note in World Literature Today discusses short-story writer and journalist, Nélida Piñon. The article mentions her success as a female Brazilian author and her numerous awards. It further states that "she was also the first woman selected for the University of Guadalajara’s Cátedra Julio Cortázar, a distinguished professorship established by Fuentes and Gabriel García Márquez that honors some of the world’s most distinguished writers, artists, politicians, and intellectuals."