Wordstock Festival 2011

Eduardo Halfon, currently a Guggenheim Fellow, was born in 1971 in Guatemala City. He moved to the US with his family in 1981, went to school in Florida, and then studied industrial engineering at North Carolina State University. Later, back in Guatemala, he was a literature professor for eight years at Universidad Francisco Marroquín. Although bilingual, Halfon chooses to write in Spanish. He has published ten books of fiction, and in 2007 was named one of the 39 best young Latin American...
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Sergio Troncoso is the author of two new books. FROM THIS WICKED PATCH OF DUST is a novel about the Martinez family, who begins life in a shantytown on the US-Mexico border, and struggles to stay together despite cultural clashes, different religions, and contemporary politics. His story collection, CROSSING BORDERS: PERSONAL ESSAYS, bridges the chasm between the poverty of the border and the highest echelons of success in America with sacrifice, commitment, and honesty. Troncoso also...
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