Benjamin Alire Sáenz, (1954–2026) novelist, short story writer, and poet, received the American Book Award in 1992 for his first poetry collection, 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. Sáenz was 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