A Guatemalan-Anglo American, Rebecca Balcárcel is the award-winning author of Shine On, Luz Véliz! and The Other Half of Happy, as well as a contributor to Highlights magazine and a member of the Texas Institute of Letters. Rebecca loves popcorn, her kitty, and teaching her students as Associate Professor of English at Tarrant County College. Look for Rebecca’s short story in Boundless, an anthology by multi-racial/multi-cultural authors, which she also co-edited. Find Rebecca on YouTube as the SixMinuteScholar.