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Authors and Artists
His Latest Release: Planet of Slums
Their latest release at Calaca Press Authors of Aqui estamos... Ya nos vamos,
Here
we are... Here we go, a bilingual, binational collection of
border poetry and short stories published by Calaca Press/Red Calaca
Arts Collective. Fransiciso Bustos lives in Playas de Tijuana, Baja California, and in Chula Vista, California where he teaches English Composition at Southwestern College. He mostly writes about border culture, music, foods and people. In his free time, he enjoys spending time with his wife Nirvana, daughter Quetzalli, and son Emiliano, playing guitar with his father-in-law, and visiting his parents, brother and sisters. He grew up on both sides of the Tijuana/San Ysidro Border, moving every couple of years depending on family budget and situation. Bustos is a contributor to Sunshine/Noir: Writing from San Diego and Tijuana (San Diego City Works Press)
Justin Akers Chacón, co-author of NO ONE IS ILLEGAL: Fighting Racism and State Violence on the U.S.-Mexico Border, is a professor of U.S. History and Chicano Studies in San Diego, California. He has contributed to the International Socialist Review and the book Immigration: Opposing Viewpoints.
Kelly Mayhew has an MA in English from San Diego State University and a PhD in American Cultural Studies from Bowling Green State University. She is co-author with Jim Miller and Mike Davis of Under the Perfect Sun: The San Diego Tourists Never See (New Press, 2003) and co-author with Jim Miller of Better to Reign in Hell: Inside the Raiders Fan Empire (The New Press, 2005). Kelly has also recently published a teacher's resource manual to accompany the 7th edition of Race, Class, and Gender in the United States edited by Paula Rothenberg (Worth, 2007). Her critical work has appeared in Fiction International, American Book Review, Rattle, and elsewhere. Currently, she teaches English at San Diego City College. Independent Project ACANTO Y LAUREL, which has been working since October of 2005, has taken the task of being a platform for literary exchange and integration between poets of Baja California, Mexico, and California, USA. Acanto works to help diffuse and promote literary works of poets on both sides of the border region, opening a space for interaction among poets. The organizer of Acanto y Laurel and Tijuana poet is Aida Araceli Mendez Flores. La
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(Tijuana, B.C. 1978). Illegal blacksmith. Basketball player. Photographer. Booklegger. Jeweler. Always on the verge of crying. Installer. Latin-Americanist. Lefty. Omar Pimienta watches damiana tea bags dance while he floods himself among letters. He lives in Colonia Libertad, Tijuana. Armadillo. His life can be read at www.omarpimienta.blogspot.com . He has published two books of poetry: Primera Persona: Ella/ First person: She; La Libertad: Ciudad de Paso/ La Libertad: City of Passing, (2006 and Winner of Conaculta/CECUT publishing award). Currently, he is attending the University of California San Diego (UCSD), and continues to cross the border on a daily basis.
Morales is from West Sierra Madre, born in 1940. He grew up in Tecate, Baja California, and currently resides in Tijuana, B.C. Morales is a teacher and formalist poet who coordinated the creative writing workshop: Imagen/Image. He promoted publishing houses: La Marmita Alucinada/ The Hallucinated Mammoth, as well as the magazine, Indice/Index. In 1992, he received honorary mention in the national contest ‘Ramón López Velarde’. He received a national poetry prize IMAC 2006, Mexico and is author of the following books: La Muerte Adentro al Lado Conmigo/ Death Inside Alongside with Me; La Ciudad que Recorro/ The City that I Cross; Amanecida/ Sunrised; Tjuana Tango; Un Desolado Amor/ A Desolate Love; Un Día Moridor/ A Dying Day; among others.
Perry Vasquez is an artist living in San Diego since 1987. He has been a designer and art director for the Stanford Chaparral, Wet Magazine and Nihl Magazine. His paintings, motor oil drawings and popjects have been exhibited in galleries and museums across the United States. His latest project is a documentary film entitled Fotoaktion! about the Austrian photographer Doris Boris Berman. He lives with his wife Rondi and son Trey.
San Diego based trumpeter Gilbert Castellanos is a major force on the San Diego jazz scene and one of the leading trumpeters in the Southern California area. Castellanos is known equally for his work as a leader and as a member of two top jazz ensembles in the Los Angeles area- guitarist Anthony Wilson's Nonet, and one of today's most critically acclaimed big bands, the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra. Underground is his latest release on Seedling Records.
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Author of The Importance of a Piece of Paper
(Grove/Atlantic) and Winter Poems Along the Rio Grande (New
Directions), as well as, A Place to Stand, Healing Earthquakes,
C-Train and Thirteen Mexicans, Black Mesa Poems, Martin and Meditations on the South Valley, and Immigrants in Our Own Land.
Baca is also a contributor to Sunshine/Noir: Writing from San
Diego and Tijuana (San Diego City Works Press)
Author of Prisoners of the American Dream
(Verso), City of Quartz, Ecology of Fear, Magical Urbanism
(Verso), Late Victorian Holocausts, Dead Cities (The New Press),
Under the Perfect Sun: The San Diego Tourists Never See (with Jim
Miller and Kelly Mayhew on The New Press), The Monster at Our Door:
The Global Threat of Avian Flu (The New Press), and Planet
of Slums (Verso). He is also a contributor to
Sunshine/Noir: Writing from San Diego and Tijuana (San Diego City
Works Press). Davis was named a MacArthur Fellow in 1998 and was
also a Getty fellow. 
Author of Always Running: La Vida Loca, Gang Days in
L.A., which won a Carl Sandburg Literary Award and a Chicago
Sun-Times Book Award and was chosen as a New York Times
Notable Book for 1993. His books Poems Across the Pavement
and The Concrete River have won the Poetry Center Book Award from
San Francisco State University and the PEN West/Josephine Miles Award
for Literary Excellence, respectively. Rodriguez is the recipient
of numerous other awards and fellowships. His most recent books
are My Nature is Hunger: New & Selected Poems 1989-2004 (2005
Curbstone Press/Rattle Edition) and Music of the Mill (Novel,
2005 Rayo/HarperCollins)
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Michael Cheno Wickert,
a former City
College student, earned both his B.A. in English in 1999 and his M.F.A. in Creative Writing from San Diego State University. Out of high
school, he worked as a painter, carpenter, and pipe fitter throughout the shipyards of Southern California. He currently teaches elementary school in Chula Vista, where he lives with his wife Denise and his son Julian. Creatively he explores how the personal and political collide in everyday life.
Judy Goldstein Botello is author of 
(Tecate,
Baja California; 1951).
Poet born in
Tijuana, who has published four books of poetry: Ritual y Canto/ Ritual and
Song, (1994, ICBC); Mujer de Sal/ Woman of Salt, (2000, ICBEC);
Huella en
el Agua/ Treads in the Water, (2001, IMAC); Casa del Sueño/ House of
Dream, (2006, Giglico Ediciones).
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The socio-political
circumstances and human condition that gave birth to the “Chicano
Renaissance” of the late sixties and seventies projects Mario Alberto
Chacon’s artistic vision as he examines the historical trajectory of
Mexican people in the U.S. and the society who at once thrives on their
labor while rejecting their very essence. His hard-hitting yet whimsical
renditions highlight the delightful ironies of our time while maintaining
the tragic realities of our place in history.