Alba de América’s first digital volume is dedicated to women authors, texts produced by women, and women who write about other women. This collection of essays covers novels, poetry, testimony, historical fiction, and performance. The contributors analyze a variety of topics and issues including women’s representation in literature, reviews written by women, maternity as a poetic motif, Afro-Cuban culture from a female perspective, fantastic literature, traditional gender roles, violence against women, social deafness, and historiographic metafiction.