Mirtha N. QuintanalesMirtha Quintanales was a Cuban lesbian feminist, writer, and a professor at New Jersey City University. Her short writing piece "I come with no Illusions" was featured in the feminist anthology This Bridge Called My Back.Early lifeBorn in Cuba in 1948, Mirtha Natacha Quintanales immigrated to the United States from Cuba at the age of 13 on April 2, 1962. She died in November 2022.