“Nina Barragan” is the pen name of Rocío Lasansky Weinstein. Barragan was born in Cordoba, Argentina in 1943 and raised in Iowa City, Iowa, where she obtained her BA in English from the University of Iowa. Barragan has traveled extensively, and has resided in Ibiza, Spain, Bergen-an-Zee, Holland, Regina, Saskatchewan, and in Teeswater, Ontario, where she completed her first collection of short fiction. In 1963, she married artist, Alan Weinstein.