Description:
This collection of short stories, microfiction, and drama features Latinx characters and explores themes of human relationships, violence, and the weight of politics, history, and culture on individuality and identity.
Brief description: Robert Paul Moreira earned his M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Texas Pan American, and his Ph.D. in English from The University of Texas at San Antonio. He is the editor of ¡Arriba Baseball!: A Collection of Latina/o Baseball Fiction (2013) and author of the story collection Scores, winner of the 2016 NACCS Tejas FOCO Fiction Award. His work has appeared in Southwest American Literature, Aethlon, Azahares, Langdon Review of the Arts in Texas, Cobalt Review, and the anthologies SOL: English Writing from Mexico, Along the River 2, and New Border Writing. Malinalli, a musical in collaboration with Josiah Esquivel, is forthcoming from FlowerSong Press. Robert is a lecturer in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley, where he has taught courses in fiction, creative nonfiction, playwriting, and Mexican American studies.
Review Quotes:
"Robert Paul Moreira is the most original voice coming from our nation's southern border."
--Brian Allen Carr, author of Opioid, Indiana
"A timeless collection of stories and plays that is also a piece of today. Moreira is at the forefront of Latinx writers, a fresh American voice."
--Stephen D. Gutierrez, winner of the 2010 American Book Award
"The reality of lives lived on the edge and on borders hits the reader head on with vibrant precision."
--Norma Elia Cantú, author of Canícula: Snapshots of a Girlhood en la Frontera