Her paternal grandparents are from Bessarabia. She is an exiled survivor of a concentration camp, and her experience frames both her writing and research. After being freed from "Club Atletico" (1977), she became a political exile ni Canada, where shedid postgraduate work and finished aPh.D. in Latin American lite- rature (UBC). She taught in Canada and the US (1991-2011), mostly at San Diego State University, andher teaching focusedon testimonial discourse. Mostrecently,sheworkedat Universidad de Chile (Santiago, 2012) and at the Center for Genocide Studies at Universidad Tres de Febrero in Buenos Aires. Konstanz University invited her to collaborate with their research team about Terror Narratives and Disappearance (2013-2014). At the present time, she carries out the graduate seminar, "State Violence and Literature" for several institutions such as Milan University with support from Fulbright Fellowship, and Middlebury University in Buenos Aires (2014-2015). Her published short stories in English are "Inventary", "Anamesis", and "Too Many Names" (an autobiographical narration). Her awarded (Premio Internacional Letras de Oro) testimony, Una sola muerte numerosa (1997, 2006, 2007) gave her international recognition, and it was translated into English as A Single Numberless Death (2002) and to German, Ein einzelner vielfacher Tod (2014). tI was adapted to theater and received an award in the US (Michigan, 2002).