Iris Gomez is the author of the novel Try to Remember (Grand Central 2010), which won an International Latino Book Award and accolades from O, the Oprah Magazine and was selected as a Recommended Latino Book by the Association of American Publishers and a Top Ten Summer Read by Latina magazine, in addition to becoming a Boston Globe best-seller. She has authored two poetry collections, Housicwhissick Blue: Poetry of the Blue Hills Reservation (Edwin Mellen Press 2003) and When Comets Rained (CustomWords 2004), was awarded a Chicano-Latino Literary prize, and is published in journals and anthologies such as Wise Latinas: Writers on Higher Education (University of Nebraska Press 2014). A lawyer and nationally recognized expert on immigrants’ rights issues, Gomez has appeared on mainstream media and received awards from organizations such as the American Immigration Council, the American Immigration Lawyers Association, the National Lawyers Guild, the Massachusetts Bar Association, the Massachusetts Hispanic Attorneys Association, and the Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition. She also serves on the board of a Boston-based foundation dedicated to racial justice. Profiles of her can be found in Mayra Calvani’s anthology Latina Authors & Their Muses (2015) and Peter Morton Coan’s Toward a Better Life (2011).