Creative Writing presents a reading by Dagoberto Gilb

Dagoberto Gilb is the author most recently of Gritos (Grove, 2003), which was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist in Criticism. He has published Woodcuts of Women (Grove, 2001) and The Last Known Residence of Mickey Acuýa (Grove, 1994). The Magic of Blood (University of New Mexico Press, 1993) won the 1994 PEN/Hemingway Award and the Texas Institute of Letters Jesse Jones Award and was a PEN/Faulkner finalist. Gilb has been the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Whiting Writers' Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Widely anthologized, his work has appeared in a range of magazines, including The New Yorker, The Threepenny Review, Harper's, GQ, and Latina. Gilb spent sixteen years earning his living as a construction worker, twelve of those as a highrise carpenter and member of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters. He is now on the faculty of Texas State University, in San Marcos, Texas. Born in Los Angeles, he made his home for as many years in El Paso. He is living in Austin.