Ricardo Sanchez

by Richard Yañez

Paperback

First published January 30, 1900

About the author

Richard Yañez was born and raised on the U.S.-México Border. He is the author of EL PASO DEL NORTE: STORIES ON THE BORDER. His novel, CROSS OVER WATER, was published in spring 2011, also by the University of Nevada Press. His work has appeared in LITERARY EL PASO, HECHO EN TEJAS: AN ANTHOLOGY OF TEXAS MEXICAN LITERATURE, and U.S. LATINO LITERATURE TODAY. A graduate of New Mexico State University and Arizona State University, he is an associate professor of English at El Paso Community College, where he also organizes community literary events. Currently, he is working on an autoethnography, "Beyond Italics: The Work and Witness of a Chicano Writer." He lives in his hometown with his wife, the Chicana writer Carolina Monsiváis, and their son, Pablo.