Sandra Sider received her Ph.D. in comparative literature from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (1978), and was Curator of Manuscripts and Rare Books at The Hispanic Society of America 1985–94. She has translated the sonnets of Sor Juana Inés de La Cruz and the poetry of Sappho, and is the author of The Handbook to Life in Renaissance Europe (Facts on File, 2005). She currently teaches art history online for the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs.