Dagoberto Gilb is the author of nine books, including The Magic of Blood, The Last Known Residence of Mickey Acuña, Woodcuts of Women, Gritos, The Flowers, and, most recently, Before the End, After the Beginning. Among his honors are the PEN/Hemingway Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and a Whiting Writers Award. His work has been a finalist for the National Book Critics’ Circle and PEN/Faulkner Awards and has been honored several times in Texas as a proud part of its literary tradition. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s, Best American Essays, O’Henry Prize Stories, and many other venues, with much of it widely reprinted in textbooks. He is the founding editor of Huizache, a groundbreaking literary journal that features contemporary Chicanx writing. Born and raised in Los Angeles to an American father and a Mexican mother, he now lives in Austin and Mexico City.
