Benjamin Alire Sáenz received the American Book Award in 1992 for his first book of poems, Calendar of Dust. His many other awards include a Southwest Book Award, the Paterson Prize, and the Americas Book Award, and his collection of short stories set along the Texas-Mexico border, Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club, won the 2013 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. His most recent poetry collection is The Book of What Remains. Sáenz is the chair of the creative writing department at the University of Texas at El Paso.
WORKS THAT HAVE APPEARED IN NARRATIVE:
- What You Get, a short story, in Spring 2016
- By Hand, a feature, in Spring 2011
- From “Last Summer in the Garden”, poetry, in Poems of the Week: 2010–2011
- He Has Gone to Be with the Women, a short story, in Stories of the Week: 2010–2011
- By Hand, a feature, in Fall 2010
- The Ninth Dream: War (in the City in Which I Live), poetry, in Poems of the Week: 2009-2010
- Do Not Mind the Bombs, poetry, in Poems of the Week: 2008–2009
- Confessions: My Father, Hummingbirds, and Frantz Fanon, poetry, in Fall 2007