Christine E. Eber

CHRISTINE E. EBER holds a PhD in anthropology from SUNY Buffalo, and is Professor Emerita of Anthropology at New Mexico State University. She is the author of Women and Alcohol in a Highland Maya Town: Water of Hope, Water of Sorrow (1995), co-editor of Women of Chiapas: Making History in Times of Struggle and Hope (2003), and co-author of The Journey of a Tzotzil-Maya Woman: Pass Well Over the Earth (2011). She published her first novel, When a Woman Rises (2018), and her poems have been published in Malpais Review, Adobe Walls, and Anthropology and Humanism. Eber lives in Las Cruces, New Mexico, where she is a founding member of Weaving for Justice, a volunteer network that assists Maya weavers in Chiapas to sell their textiles through fair trade. https://weaving-for-justice.org, https://www.christineeber.com.