Luis Alberto Urrea - The Water Museum

“Amapola” appeared in Phoenix Noir;

“Bid Farewell to Her Many Horses” appeared in Blue Mesa Review (thanks to Rudolfo Anaya);

“Chametla” appeared in Tin House (thanks to Rob Spillman);

“Mr. Mendoza’s Paintbrush” appeared in Six Kinds of Sky;

“Mountains Without Number” appeared in Orion;

“The National City Reparation Society” appeared in San Diego Noir;

“The Sous Chefs of Iogüa” appears here for the first time;

“The Southside Raza Image Federation Corps of Discovery” appeared in Orion;

“Taped to the Sky” appeared in Six Kinds of Sky;

“A Visit to the Water Museum” appears here for the first time;

“The White Girl” appeared in Latinos in Lotusland (thanks to Dan Olivas);

“Young Man’s Blues” appeared in the Esquire anthology You and Me and the Devil Makes Three.

A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Luis Alberto Urrea is the bestselling author of The Devil’s Highway, The Hummingbird’s Daughter, Into the Beautiful North, and Queen of America, among others. He has won the Lannan Literary Award, the Pacific Rim Kiriyama Prize, an American Book Award, the Christopher Award, and an Edgar Award, among other honors. Born in Tijuana to a Mexican father and an American mother, he lives outside of Chicago and is a distinguished professor of creative writing at the University of Illinois — Chicago.