New Border Voices: An Anthology

Credits

Credits Agustín Cadena: “The Border Is a Good Place to Live” is translated by Pat Dubrava. The original Spanish text appears in Los pobres de espíritu (Nueva Imagen , Editorial Patria, 2005). Copyright © 2005 by Agustín Cadena. Reprinted with permission from the author. Sean Chadwell: “Quitclaim” is from the unpublished novel Quitclaim, which won the Faulkner-Wisdom award in 2010, and is printed with permission from the author. Genaro Gonzalez: “Southbound” is an expanded revision of “On the Other Side,” which originally appeared in Cite 30, no. 1 (1993). Copyright © 1993 by Genaro Gonzalez. Reprinted with permission from Genaro Gonzalez. Rolando Hinojosa-Smith: “The Texas-Mexico Border: This Writer’s Sense of Place” appears in The Texas Literary Tradition, edited by Don Graham, James W. Lee, and Tom Pilkington (College of Liberal Arts and the Texas State Historical Association, 1983). This piece also appears in Range Wars: Heated Debates, Sober Reflections, and Other Assessments of Texas Writing, edited by Craig Clifford and Tom Pilkington (Southern Methodist University Press, 1989). The version appearing in NewBorder is transcribed from Open Spaces, City Places: Contemporary Writers on the Southwest, edited by Judy Nolte Temple (University of Arizona Press, 1994). Copyright © 1994 by Rolando Hinojosa-Smith. Reprinted with permission from Rolando Hinojosa-Smith. Gene Keller: “Border Illusion” originally appears in BorderSenses V (fall 2002). Reprinted with permission from Gene Keller. Kathryn Lane: “Baseball over the Moon” originally appeared under the title “Growing Up Tomboy” in SWIRL: Literary Arts Journal 12, no. 1 (2010). Copyright © 2010 by Kathryn Lane. Reprinted with permission from Kathryn Lane. Gabriela Ybarra Lemmons: “Fertile” appears in Cuentos: Stories from the Latino Heartland (Scapegoat Press, 2009). Copyright © 2009 by Gabriela Ybarra Lemmons . Reprinted with permission from Gabriela Ybarra Lemmons. 264 ♦ Credits José E. Limón: “A ‘Southern Renaissance’ for Texas Letters” originally appeared in The Texas Literary Tradition, edited by Don Graham, James W. Lee, and Tom Pilkington (College of Liberal Arts and the Texas State Historical Association, 1983), as “Texas Literature and the Future: Some Notes from the South.” The version appearing in NewBorder is transcribed from Range Wars: Heated Debates, Sober Reflections, and Other Assessments of Texas Writing, edited by Craig Clifford and Tom Pilkington (Southern Methodist University Press, 1989). Reprinted with permission from José E. Limón. Sheryl Luna: “Border” first appeared in the Wisconsin Review 39, no. 1 (2004). Copyright © 2004 by Sheryl Luna. Reprinted with permission from Sheryl Luna. Robert Paul Moreira: “Cobb and Me” first appeared in Aethlon: The Journal of Sports Literature 26, no. 2 (2009). Copyright © 2009 Robert Paul Moreira. Reprinted with permission from Robert Paul Moreira. Paul Pedroza: “The Rain Parade” originally appeared in PALABRA 5, no. 1 (2009). Copyright © 2009 by Paul Pedroza. Reprinted with permission from Paul Pedroza. Kevin Prufer: “El Paso” first appeared in Boulevard in 2010. Reprinted with permission from Kevin Prufer. Octavio Quintanilla: “Sonnet for Human Smugglers” appears in Alaska QuarterlyReview27 ,no.3(2010).Copyright©2010byOctavioQuintanilla.Reprinted with permission from Octavio Quintanilla. Brian Van Reet: “The Window” appears in Gulf Coast 24, no. 1 (2011). “The Window ” won the Gulf Coast Prize in Fiction. Copyright © 2011 by Brian Van Reet. Reprinted with permission from Brian Van Reet. Brenda Nettles Riojas: “Raspas, Tequila y Balazos” was published in Interstice, a publication of South Texas College. Copyright © 2009 by Brenda Nettles Riojas. Reprinted with permission from Brenda Nettles Riojas. René Saldaña Jr.: “Popeye Was an American Citizen and So Am I” appeared in BorderSenses. Copyright © by René Saldaña Jr. Reprinted with permission from René Saldaña Jr. Credits ♦ 265 Jim Sanderson: “Contrabandista Epistle” is retold from El Camino del Rio (University of New Mexico Press, 1998). This story also appears as “Cleburne Hot Springs Resort” in Conference of College Teachers of English Studies LIX (1994). Copyright © 1998 Jim Sanderson. Reprinted with permission from Jim Sanderson. Sergio Troncoso: “The Loss of Juárez” appears in Literal Magazine: Latin American Voices 23 (2011). Copyright © 2011 by Sergio Troncoso. Reprinted with permission from Sergio Troncoso. Beatriz Guzmán Velásquez: “Santa de las Embarazadas” appears in Gallery, a publication of the University of Texas–Pan American. The poem won a Certificate of Merit in Columbia University’s Golden Circle Awards. Copyright © 2009 by Beatriz Guzmán Velásquez. Reprinted with permission from the author. ...