Literary El Paso

Richard Ya

428 Richard Yañez Richard Yañez was born and raised in El Paso. He received an M.F.A. from Arizona State University and teaching fellowships at Colorado College, the Center for Women’s Intercultural Leadership at Saint Mary’s College, Indiana, and was a visiting writer at New Mexico State University. El Paso del Norte: Stories on the Border, his first book, was a finalist for the Texas Institute of Letters first book award. His work has been published in When I Was a Loser: True Stories of (Barely) Surviving High School; U.S. Latino Literature Today; and Our Working Lives: Short Stories of People and Work. A founding member of Con Tinta, a coalition of Chicano/Latino writer-activists, Yañez is also a contributing editor to BorderSenses. He is currently an assistant professor at El Paso Community College and organizes community writing programs through the PaPaGaYo Literary Center. From El Paso del Norte: Stories on the Border: Rio Grande Kmart Electronic rights not granted. 429 430 431 432 433 434 435 436 437 438 ...