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Marcela Valdes is a board member of the National Book Critics Circle and a contributing editor at Publishers Weekly. Her writing also appears regularly in Bookforum, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the Washington Post. In 2000, she co-founded Críticas, an American magazine devoted to the coverage of Spanish-language books. She is currently at work on a book about Chile.