Cruz was the first Hispanic-Latino artist to win the Pulitzer Prize for drama in 2003. This volume includes the award-winning play, as well as four other selections.

Nilo Cruz, whose plays include NIght Train to Bolina, A Bicyle Country, Dancing on Her Knees, is one of the country's most produced Cuban-American writers. An alumnus of New Dramatists, Cruz has taught playwriting at Brown and Yale Universities.