Lolita Hernandez is the author of Autopsy of an Engine and Other Stories from the Cadillac Plant, winner of a 2005 PEN Beyond Margins Award. She also is the author of two chapbook collections of poems: Quiet Battles and Snakecrossing. After over 33 years as a UAW member at General Motors, she now teaches in the Creative writing Department of the University of Michigan Residential College.