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About the Author
JOS? SKINNER is the author of two short story collections, The Tombstone Race (University of New Mexico Press, 2016) and Flight and Other Stories (University of Nevada Press, 2001). His fiction and translations have appeared in Quarterly West, Colorado Review, Other Voices, Bilingual Review, Puerto del Sol and many other literary journals. His nonfiction appears in anthologies such as Speaking desde las heridas: Transborder Testimonies (UNAM) and Our Lost Border: Essays on Life Amid the Narco-Violence (Arte P?blico). A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop with an MFA in fiction, he was a professor of literature and creative writing at the University of Texas-Pan American and director of its bilingual MFA in Creative Writing. He now lives in Austin, Texas, where he and his wife run the bookstore Alienated Majesty.