José Antonio Rodríguez is the author, most recently, of The Day's Hard Edge. His other books include the poetry collections This American Autopsy, cited in the New York Times as "new & noteworthy"; Backlit Hour, a finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize; and The Shallow End of Sleep, winner of the Bob Bush Memorial Award from the Texas Institute of Letters; and the memoir House Built on Ashes, a finalist for the PEN America Los Angeles Literary Award, the International Latino Book Award, and the Lambda Literary Award. His work has appeared most recently in the The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Paterson Literary Review, and Lips, and will be anthologized in the new edition of The Norton Introduction to Literature. A Mexican immigrant and first-gen college graduate, he holds a PhD in English from Binghamton University and is a professor in the MFA program at The University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley.
Author Session:
Stories of Survival: Exploring the Borderland Experience with José Antonio Rodriguez & Juan Ochoa
Saturday, November 2, 2024
12:00 - 12:45PM
Location:
Auditorium │ Main Library at 4001 N. 23rd St., McAllen
Book Signing:
1:00 - 1:30PM
Location:
Computer Lab │ Main Library at 4001 N. 23rd St., McAllen
