El Tramo Ancla recoge ensayos de los escritores jóvenes más representativos de las letras puertorriqueñas, presentando nuevos y variados temas, lenguajes y estilos que permiten reconstruir las incidencias y disidencias de ciertas maneras de ser en el Puerto Rico de los años ochenta.
Recipient of both the Premio Juan Rulfo (1982) and the Premio Casa de las Américas (1981). Vega belongs to a generation of Puerto Rican writers that has integrated into their writing mordant reflections on the ambiguous political status of their island nation. Ana Lydia Vega pursued an academic career as a professor of both French literature and Caribbean studies at the same time that she became an accomplished author.