Border Artist 24

​Roosevelt V. Campbell is a native of the border region having spent his early years in Reynosa, Tamaulipas and Mission, Texas. His studies took him from the Rio Grande Valley to Baton Rouge, Galveston, Kansas City, and Durham before returning to the area where he now practices medicine. Roosevelt has always enjoyed writing and has written poetry and participated in numerous poetry readings. His work has also appeared in multiple publications and anthologies such as WILD (Writers In Literary Discussion - a student publication at South Texas Community College), diCHo (published by the Latino Writers Collective of Kansas City) and Deranged Perspectives Chapbook and Lost Anthology Series published by the Raving 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...