 Rod Carlos Rodriguez has a Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing from the University of Texas at El Paso and has trained as a guest lecturer at the University of Texas at San Antonio Writing Program. He is a poet, fiction, and non-fiction writer who has been writing for over 40 years. He has 3 books of poetry published: the award-winning Exploits of a Sun Poet (Pecan Grove Press, 2003), Lucid Affairs (Sun Arts Press, 2012), and Native Instincts (Human Error Publishing, 2016). He is founder/chair of the Sun Poet’s Society, South Texas’s longest running weekly open-mic poetry reading (1995-2022). He was nominated for the San Antonio Poet Laureate in April 2012, April 2014, April 2016, and April 2018. He was poetry editor for Ocotillo Review, a literary journal/periodical and he was the editor of the Texas Poetry Calendar 2023 (Kallisto Gaia Press).  The Border Arts: Beyond the Barriers is LIVE and available for purchase. (CLICK HERE for a short sample of what's inside.)
For the next several days we will be posting each of our contributors' bios and pictures here in the order that they appear in the anthology "Contributor Bios" page. The aim of this publication was to showcase some of the artistic talent that often gets overlooked by some when topics of the US-Mexico border arise. The artists and writers who contributed to the Border Arts: Beyond the Barriers anthology are some of the most accomplished. These are their bios...  Rosalva Ruiz, nació en 1981 y es originaria de Weslaco, Texas. Empezó a escribir en 2019 como manera de expresarse. Es miembro de la Sociedad de Poesía de Texas y Códice Colectivo Literario. Algunas de sus obras se han publicado en antologías de Mcallen Public Library, Gnashing Teeth Publishing; también en eZines como Prachya Review, Chachalaca Review, Gnashing Teeth Publishing, Aullidos del Monte (Howls from el Monte) y 52television.com.  The Border Arts: Beyond the Barriers is LIVE and available for purchase. (CLICK HERE for a short sample of what's inside.)
For the next several days we will be posting each of our contributors' bios and pictures here in the order that they appear in the anthology "Contributor Bios" page. The aim of this publication was to showcase some of the artistic talent that often gets overlooked by some when topics of the US-Mexico border arise. The artists and writers who contributed to the Border Arts: Beyond the Barriers anthology are some of the most accomplished. These are their bios...  José Sánchez - I grew up in Weslaco, TX in the 1960s. When I was 13, I began writing poetry. Later that year, I began playing guitar. Around the time that I began performing professionally, at 30, all the poems became songs. A few years later, I founded a band, I Ching Gatos, to perform my songs, which we still do to this day. My college degree from Harvard University is in Folklore and Mythology A career as an elementary teacher followed, as well as a Master’s Degree in Education from Our Lady of the Lake University. Now, I live on South Padre Island. My wife, Lucinda Wierenga (Sandy Feet) invented Sand Castle Lessons, and so I am an Sand Castle instructor. With her, I am also an inn-keeper. We live the artist’s life with seven dogs and two cats. The band plays on.  The Border Arts: Beyond the Barriers is LIVE and available for purchase. (CLICK HERE for a short sample of what's inside.)
For the next several days we will be posting each of our contributors' bios and pictures here in the order that they appear in the anthology "Contributor Bios" page. The aim of this publication was to showcase some of the artistic talent that often gets overlooked by some when topics of the US-Mexico border arise. The artists and writers who contributed to the Border Arts: Beyond the Barriers anthology are some of the most accomplished. These are their bios...  Gerard Sarnat won San Francisco Poetry’s Contest, Poetry in First Place Award, the Dorfman Prize, and has been nominated for handfuls of 2021 and previous Pushcarts/Best of the Net Awards. Gerry's published in Tokyo Poetry Journal, Buddhist Poetry Review, Gargoyle, Main Street Rag, New Delta Review, Northampton Review, New Haven Poetry Institute, Texas Review, Vonnegut Journal, Brooklyn Review, San Francisco Magazine, Monterey Poetry Review, Los Angeles Review, and New York Times as well as by Harvard, Stanford, Dartmouth, Penn, Chicago and Columbia presses. He’s authored the collections Homeless Chronicles (2010), Disputes (2012), 17s (2014), Melting the Ice King (2016). Gerry's a physician who’s built/ staffed clinics for the marginalized, Stanford professor and healthcare CEO. Currently he's devoting energy/ resources to deal with climate justice and serves on Climate Action Now’s board. Gerry’s been married since 1969 with three kids/ six grandsons, and is looking forward to future granddaughters. The Border Arts: Beyond the Barriers is LIVE and available for purchase. (CLICK HERE for a short sample of what's inside.)
For the next several days we will be posting each of our contributors' bios and pictures here in the order that they appear in the anthology "Contributor Bios" page. The aim of this publication was to showcase some of the artistic talent that often gets overlooked by some when topics of the US-Mexico border arise. The artists and writers who contributed to the Border Arts: Beyond the Barriers anthology are some of the most accomplished. These are their bios... For more about Gerard Sarnat, CLICK HERE.  Ana Fores Tamayo: Being an academic not paid enough for my trouble, I wanted instead to do something that mattered: work with asylum seekers. I advocate for marginalized refugee families from Mexico, Central America, and now, many other countries from which people are being uprooted. Working with asylum seekers is heart wrenching yet satisfying. It is also quite humbling. My labor has eased my own sense of displacement, being a child refugee, always trying to find home. In parallel, poetry is my escape: I have published in The Raving Press, Indolent Books, the Laurel Review, Shenandoah, and many other anthologies and journals, both in the US and internationally, online and in-print. My poetry in translation with its accompanying photography has been featured in art fairs and galleries as well. Peregrina, only in Spanish, was just published by Ediciones Valparaiso this June 2022. I hope you like my art; it is a catharsis from the cruelty yet ecstasy of my work. Through it, I keep tilting at windmills. The Border Arts: Beyond the Barriers is LIVE and available for purchase. (CLICK HERE for a short sample of what's inside.)
For the next several days we will be posting each of our contributors' bios and pictures here in the order that they appear in the anthology "Contributor Bios" page. The aim of this publication was to showcase some of the artistic talent that often gets overlooked by some when topics of the US-Mexico border arise. The artists and writers who contributed to the Border Arts: Beyond the Barriers anthology are some of the most accomplished. These are their bios...  Milton Jordan lives with Anne in Georgetown, Texas. He has published poems, stories, and reviews in literary and popular journals for over 50 years. His most recent collection, A Forest for the Trees, is out from Backroom Window Press. Milton is editing an anthology from the Texas Poetry Assignment for Kallisto Gaia Press. The Border Arts: Beyond the Barriers is LIVE and available for purchase. (CLICK HERE for a short sample of what's inside.)
For the next several days we will be posting each of our contributors' bios and pictures here in the order that they appear in the anthology "Contributor Bios" page. The aim of this publication was to showcase some of the artistic talent that often gets overlooked by some when topics of the US-Mexico border arise. The artists and writers who contributed to the Border Arts: Beyond the Barriers anthology are some of the most accomplished. These are their bios...  Julieta Corpus' poetry has been included in various anthologies, including: Waiting To Be Heard:Voces desde El Chicho, Solamente en San Miguel,Vol. I & II, The Thing Itself, Texas Poetry Calendar, The Valley International Festival Anthology, South Texas College Interstice, among others. She also collaborated with visual artist Corinne McCormack Whittemore and South Texas poet Katie Hoerth on a book titled, Borderland Mujeres, published by Texas A&M Press. Her first poetry collection titled, Of Love and Departures, 2021 is available on Amazon. She was recently awarded a Creative Writing Residency in Tasajillo, Texas to translate Austin-based poet, Ire'ne Lara Silva's short story collection "flesh and bone". The Border Arts: Beyond the Barriers is LIVE and available for purchase. (CLICK HERE for a short sample of what's inside.)
For the next several days we will be posting each of our contributors' bios and pictures here in the order that they appear in the anthology "Contributor Bios" page. The aim of this publication was to showcase some of the artistic talent that often gets overlooked by some when topics of the US-Mexico border arise. The artists and writers who contributed to the Border Arts: Beyond the Barriers anthology are some of the most accomplished. These are their bios...  AE Reiff has published Red Head / A Reparation for Cruelty: Poems of the Unknown Soldier (Newfoundland Books, 2022), A Bloody Theory of Divine Light (2022), Recon (Trainwreck Press, 2021), The True Light That Lights (Parousia, 2020), and A Calendar of Poems, of a mythical history of America. He has writing to appear in the dream issue of Fiction International, in Border Arts: Beyond the Barriers, and in Frigg, a long poem, “Elk and Aspen,” where "in a hunter's milieu, a man hacks at some trees with language of a sanctuary against death.” He is a native of Philadelphia who has written extensively on the origins of Philadelphia and of the settling of Texas from 1850. He operates a sculpture studio, Forms of the Formless, in the Arizona desert. The Border Arts: Beyond the Barriers is LIVE and available for purchase. (CLICK HERE for a short sample of what's inside.)
For the next several days we will be posting each of our contributors' bios and pictures here in the order that they appear in the anthology "Contributor Bios" page. The aim of this publication was to showcase some of the artistic talent that often gets overlooked by some when topics of the US-Mexico border arise. The artists and writers who contributed to the Border Arts: Beyond the Barriers anthology are some of the most accomplished. These are their bios... During business hours AE Reiff can be reached at Encouragements for Planting. https://encouragementsforsuch.blogspot.com/  Jose R. Castilleja, a writer, a poet, an engineer and community leader. He has written articles of local events, poems for local journals and the local newspaper. He was born and raised in the Rio Grande Valley and has worked in Texas and California. The Border Arts: Beyond the Barriers is LIVE and available for purchase. (CLICK HERE for a short sample of what's inside.)
For the next several days we will be posting each of our contributors' bios and pictures here in the order that they appear in the anthology "Contributor Bios" page. The aim of this publication was to showcase some of the artistic talent that often gets overlooked by some when topics of the US-Mexico border arise. The artists and writers who contributed to the Border Arts: Beyond the Barriers anthology are some of the most accomplished. These are their bios...  Dee Allen is an African-Italian performance poet based in Oakland, California. Active on creative writing & Spoken Word since the early 1990s. Author of 7 books--Boneyard, Unwritten Law, Stormwater, Skeletal Black [ all from POOR Press ], Elohi Unitsi [ Conviction 2 Change Publishing ] and his 2 newest, Rusty Gallows [ Vagabond Books ] and Plans [ Nomadic Press ]--and 66 anthology appearances under his figurative belt so far. Currently looking for a new publisher to turn his manuscript into a finished, printed 8th book. The Border Arts: Beyond the Barriers is LIVE and available for purchase. (CLICK HERE for a short sample of what's inside.)
For the next several days we will be posting each of our contributors' bios and pictures here in the order that they appear in the anthology "Contributor Bios" page. The aim of this publication was to showcase some of the artistic talent that often gets overlooked by some when topics of the US-Mexico border arise. The artists and writers who contributed to the Border Arts: Beyond the Barriers anthology are some of the most accomplished. These are their bios...  Lee Martínez Soto (they/ellx) is a published queer Chicanx poet and translator. Their work centers on mental health stigma: life with comorbid mental health diagnoses, finding accessible resources and competent specialists, and healing. The author self-published their first poetry anthology, Para los Locos in 2020. Additional publications include Chismosa Press vol 4 (2022), Chrysalis Literary Journal (2021), Life in the Time (2021), Chismosas Press vol. 3 (2020), Living Zine vol. 2 (2020), and Nuestras Voces with Massachusetts’s College of Liberal Arts (2014). The Border Arts: Beyond the Barriers is LIVE and available for purchase. (CLICK HERE for a short sample of what's inside.)
For the next several days we will be posting each of our contributors' bios and pictures here in the order that they appear in the anthology "Contributor Bios" page. The aim of this publication was to showcase some of the artistic talent that often gets overlooked by some when topics of the US-Mexico border arise. The artists and writers who contributed to the Border Arts: Beyond the Barriers anthology are some of the most accomplished. These are their bios... You can keep up with their creative endeavors through their landing page here: (https://linktr.ee/cadaveres).  Born and raised in Edinburg, Texas, Luke Van Garza earned degrees in English, Radio-TV-Film, and Cinema-Television from the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Southern California. He worked in script development in the entertainment industry and as a segment producer for a network TV series. Currently, he teaches screenwriting at Austin Community College. He also serves as a producer, director, and writer of independent films. Luke runs Inner Sanctum Films, the horror division of Starshine Productions LLC, a production company jointly owned by his wife Martha. As of 2022, Inner Sanctum has produced two shorts, SPECTRAL WIND and PETE & RE-PETE; SPECTRAL WIND was an official selection of the South Texas International Film Festival. The Border Arts: Beyond the Barriers is LIVE and available for purchase. (CLICK HERE for a short sample of what's inside.) For the next several days we will be posting each of our contributors' bios and pictures here in the order that they appear in the anthology "Contributor Bios" page. The aim of this publication was to showcase some of the artistic talent that often gets overlooked by some when topics of the US-Mexico border arise. The artists and writers who contributed to the Border Arts: Beyond the Barriers anthology are some of the most accomplished. These are their bios... For more information on Luke and his projects, visit Starshine’s official page: starshinefilms.com  Guy Prevost is film/TV writer based in Los Angeles. His background encompasses work as a story editor in Hollywood, college teacher, fiction writer, and flaneur. Film credits include award winning episodes of Walker, Texas Ranger, Dead Man’s Gun, and the SyFy Channel hit Dinoshark. His short stories have appeared in The NonBinary Review, The North Atlantic Review, Story Quest Magazine, and elsewhere. He’s humbled and honored to be represented in Beyond [the] Barriers. The Border Arts: Beyond the Barriers is LIVE and available for purchase. (CLICK HERE for a short sample of what's inside.)
For the next several days we will be posting each of our contributors' bios and pictures here in the order that they appear in the anthology "Contributor Bios" page. The aim of this publication was to showcase some of the artistic talent that often gets overlooked by some when topics of the US-Mexico border arise. The artists and writers who contributed to the Border Arts: Beyond the Barriers anthology are some of the most accomplished. These are their bios... For more about Guy Prevost CLICK HERE.  Tezozomoc is a Los Angeles Chicano Essayist, Poet and 2009 Oscar Nominated Activist, internationally published and has been published by Floricanto Press, “Gashes!: Poems and Pain from the halls of injustice”, a collection of poetry, ISBN-13: 978-1951088040, 9/2019. Featured nationally and internationally across zoom open virtual mics. Published in the following journals /anthologies: 2021 Boundless Anthology, 1/20/2022, MacroMicroCosm, Healing Hands, Vol 7 Issue #3, BC, Canada, 4/15/2021, Rigorous Journal, 9/21/2020, Red Earth Productions & Cultural Work, 12/17/2019, Underwood Press, 9/9/2019, Mom Egg Review, Los Angeles Poets for Justice, 03/15/2021.  The Border Arts: Beyond the Barriers is LIVE and available for purchase. (CLICK HERE for a short sample of what's inside.)
For the next several days we will be posting each of our contributors' bios and pictures here in the order that they appear in the anthology "Contributor Bios" page. The aim of this publication was to showcase some of the artistic talent that often gets overlooked by some when topics of the US-Mexico border arise. The artists and writers who contributed to the Border Arts: Beyond the Barriers anthology are some of the most accomplished. These are their bios... |
AuthorGabriel H. Sanchez is an author, poet, actor, editor, and publisher from the Rio Grande Valley in south Texas, on the border with Mexico. Gabriel is the author of "Once Upon a Bad Hombre," "The X Series," "The Martian Ones: Tales of Human Folly," and "The Fluid Chicano." You can read more about him and his other projects at gabrielhugo.com or on his Facebook page: @gabrielhugoauthor. Categories
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