Benjamin Alire Saenz is the author of In Perfect Light, Carry Me Like Water, and House of Forgetting, as well as the author of several children s books. He won the American Book Award for his collection of poems Calendar of Dust. Saenz is the chair of the creative writing department at the University of Texas-El Paso.
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Benjamin Alire Sáenz's stories reveal how all borders-real, imagined, sexual, human, the line between dark and light, addict and straight-entangle those who live on either side. Take, for instance, the Kentucky Club on Avenida Juárez two blocks south of... SEE MORE