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Contributors jorge azcárate was born in El Paso, Texas, and raised in Ciudad Juárez. He is an actor and a poet. He has played Mistress Quickly and Master Ford in Pittsburgh ’s Shakespeare in the Parks presentation of The Merry Wives of Windsor. His work has appeared in BorderSenses. agustín cadena was born in Ixmiquilpan, Hidalgo, Mexico. He has taught at UNAM and currently teaches at the University of Debrecen, Hungary. Essayist , fiction writer, poet, and translator, Cadena has published more than twenty books. His most recent publications include a young adult novel and two collections of poems. abigail carl-klassen grew up in rural West Texas but has made her home on the border. She is an MFA student at the University of Texas at El Paso, where she also teaches composition. brian allen carr is the author of two short story collections: Short Bus and Vampire Conditions. He also has a novella entitled Edie & the Low-Hung Hands. sean chadwell worked as an English professor at Texas A&M International Universityfrom1998to2009.Formostofthattimehelivedinthesmallranching community of Encinal, where he got to know the people whose voices shaped Quitclaim, which won the 2010 Faulkner-Wisdom competition for best novel. isaac chavarria is a pocho from Alton, Texas, with an MFA in creative writing from the University of Texas–Pan American. His poems have been published in Acentos Review and Rio Grande Review online. He hopes the term pocho will represent a positive identity rather than a pejorative one. chip dameron has published five books of poems, including the collections Tropical Green and Hook & Bloodline. He teaches writing and literature at the University of Texas at Brownsville. patricia dubrava has two books of poems and one of stories translated from the Spanish. Her publications include her translation of a story in Norton’s anthology Sudden Fiction Latino and translations of Mónica Lavín stories in 256 ♦ Contributors Metamorphoses and Reunion: The Dallas Review. She translated Agustín Cadena’s story for this anthology. lauren espinoza is a member of The Trinity, a poetry clica from the Rio Grande Valley. Her poetry has appeared in Time You Let Me In: 25 Poets under 25, Acentos Review, and Mas Tequila Review. She is a graduate student in the MFA program in poetry at Arizona State University. flores was born in Reynosa, Tamaulipas, Mexico, and was raised in Alton, Texas. His fiction and poetry have been published by several journals and presses. He lives in Central Texas and fights wild beasts almost daily. john d. fry grew up in West and South Texas and graduated from the MFA program at Texas State University in San Marcos. He is the author of the chapbook silt will swirl. His poetry has appeared in The Offending Adam, Free Verse, and Pebble Lake Review, among others. rodney gomez is a CantoMundo fellow whose work has appeared in Denver Quarterly, Salt Hill, Nano Fiction, Fourteen Hills, and other journals. He has been a resident at the Atlantic Center for the Arts and the Santa Fe Art Institute. tammy melody gomez, a poet and playwright, has performed with Red Salmon Poets, Dharma Broads, and Yoniverse. Her “She: Bike/Spoke/Love” was presented in 2012 at the MACC in Austin. Saliendo Abierta, her one-woman show, toured Texas in 2009–10. She coproduces Palabrazos, a festival of multimedia literary performance. genaro gonzalez, a Texas border native, received a doctorate in social psychology and personality from the University of California at Santa Cruz. He is a professor of psychology at the University of Texas–Pan American. In addition to his journal articles and anthologized short fiction, he has published a collection of short stories and three novels. ray gonzalez is the author of twelve books of poetry, including Faith Run, Cool Auditor, Prose Poems, and Consideration of the Guitar: New and Selected Poems. His work Turtle Pictures received the 2001 Minnesota Book Award for Poetry. His work has appeared in The Best American Poetry. He is director of the MFA creative writing program at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. [44.193.77.196] Project MUSE (2024-03-29 06:27 GMT) Contributors ♦ 257 christine granados, an El Paso native, is a mother, wife, and writer. Her work, which includes Brides and Sinners in El Chuco, has appeared in Evergreen Review, Callaloo, NPR’s Latino USA, Texas Observer, and several textbooks and anthologies. Granados teaches at the University of Houston at Victoria and is managing editor of Huizache Magazine. joseph daniel haske...