in America (Beacon Press), Critical Thinking, Thoughtful Writing (Cengage Learning), Camino Del Sol: Fifteen Years of Latina and Latino Writing (University of Arizona Press), Latino Boom: An Anthology of U.S. Latino Literature (Pearson/Longman Publishing), Hecho en Tejas: An Anthology of Texas-Mexican Literature (University of New Mexico Press), City Wilds: Essays and Stories about Urban Nature (University of Georgia Press), and New World: Young Latino Writers (Dell Publishing). His work has also appeared in Texas Highways, New Letters, Yale Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, New Guard Literary Review, Houston Chronicle, Texas Monthly, Dallas Morning News, Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas, Newsday, Hadassah Magazine, Other Voices, and many other newspapers and magazines. Bibliography Books Nobody's Pilgrims (Lee & Low Books: Cinco Puntos Press, 2022) A Peculiar Kind of Immigrant's Son (Cinco Puntos Press, 2019) From This Wicked Patch of Dust (University of Arizona Press, 2011) Crossing Borders: Personal Essays (Arte Público Press, 2011) The Nature of Truth (Northwestern University Press, 2003); (Arte Público Press, 2014) The Last Tortilla and Other Stories (University of Arizona Press, 1999) Anthology (editor) Nepantla Familias: An Anthology of Mexican American Literature on Families in between Worlds, (Texas A&M University Press and Wittliff Collections, 2021) Our Lost Border: Essays on Life amid the Narco-Violence, (Arte Público Press, 2013) Anthologies (contributing author) Nepantla Familias: An Anthology of Mexican American Literature on Families in between Worlds (Texas A&M University Press and Wittliff Collections, 2021) We Wear the Mask: Fifteen True Stories of Passing in America (Beacon Press, 2017) New Border Voices: An Anthology (Texas A&M University Press, 2014) Critical Thinking, Thoughtful Writing (Cengage Learning, 2014) Writing for Life: Paragraphs and Essays (Pearson Longman Publishing, 2013) Writing for Life: Sentences and Paragraphs (Pearson Longman Publishing, 2013) Nuestra Aparente Rendicion (Random House Mondadori, 2011) You Don't Have a Clue: Latino Mystery Stories for Teens (Arte Público Press, 2011) Camino Del Sol: Fifteen Years of Latina and Latino Writing (University of Arizona Press, 2010) Literary El Paso (Texas Christian University Press, 2009) Hit List: The Best of Latino Mystery (Arte Público Press, 2009) Hecho en Tejas: An Anthology of Texas-Mexican Literature (University of New Mexico Press, 2007) Encyclopedia Latina: History, Culture, and Society in the United States (Grolier Scholastic, 2005) Latino Boom: An Anthology of U.S. Latino Literature (Pearson Longman Publishing, 2005) Once Upon a Cuento (Curbstone Press, 2003) Tierra Adentro: Cuentario (Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, 2002) City