Prof. Valentin Gonzalez-Bohorquez has taught Spanish Language, Culture, History and Spanish and Spanish-American Literature at Biola University, University of California, Riverside, and Pasadena City College and Providence Christian College, for more than a decade. Prof. Gonzalez-Bohórquez is a cultural journalist who wrote dozens of articles for some of the main newspapers and magazines of his country of origin, Colombia (El Espectador, Semana, Nueva Frontera and Guion). He is also a published poet and author of more than ten books of poetry, narrative, Christian biographies, history and theological and literary essays. His collaborations on literary criticism have appeared in the volumes Other voices. New identities on the southern border of California (A Contracorriente, North Carolina State University, 2011), The Reptant Eagle. Essays on Carlos Fuentes and the Art of the Novel (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015) and A History of Colombian Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2017). He is graduated from Fuller Theological Seminary with a Mdiv, and a concentration in Intercultural Studies. He also hold a MA in Spanish, with a concentration in Latin American Literature from California State University, Los Angeles, and is a PhD-ABD in Contemporary Latin American Literature from University of California, Riverside. Prof. González-Bohórquez is  member of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP), and maintains an active agenda of presentations at conferences and congresses of Latin American and Spanish literature in various universities and academic organizations in the United States and other countries. He and his wife, Marcela Rojas-González (a professor of Spanish at Azusa Pacific University), have two sons: David and Andrés.