We are grateful to the University of Michigan’s Department of Comparative Literature for its support of the publication of this issue of Absinthe. We also received generous support for this issue from the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at U-M. Several faculty and students devoted time and thought to the editing of this issue, and we would like to thank especially Sam McCracken, Lena Grimm, CC Barrick, and Arianna Afsari for their careful and thoughtful work.