The Other Barrio: New and Selected Stories

ALEJANDRO MURGUÍA, the San Francisco Poet Laureate from 2013-2017, is the author of a poetry collection, Stray Poems (City Lights Books, 2014); two story collections, Southern Front (Bilingual Review/Press, 1990) and This War Called Love (City Lights Books, 2002), both winners of the American Book Award; and a non-fiction book, The Medicine of Memory (University of Texas Press, 2002). He is the co-editor of Volcán: Poetry from Central America (City Lights Books, 2001). The founder of The Roque Dalton Cultural Brigade, he is a founding member and the first director of The Mission Cultural Center. He is a professor emeritus in Latina/Latino Studies at San Francisco State University.