Kathleen Alcalá is the author of a short story collection and three novels set in the Southwest and 19th Century , and has received the Western States Book Award, the Governor’s Writers Award, and the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award. She teaches creative writing at workshops and programs in Seattle and elsewhere. Kathleen is a co-founder of and contributing editor to The Raven Chronicles, and a member of the writers group, Los Norteños She serves on the board of Richard Hugo House and the advisory board of Con Tinta. Her new collection of essays, The Desert Remembers My Name, is published by the University of Arizona Press. More at www.kathleenalcala.com.

Her books are: Mrs. Vargas and the Dead Naturalist (Calyx Books); Spirits of the Ordinary (Chronicle; Harvest Books); The Flower in the Skull (Chronicle; Harvest Books); and Treasures in Heaven (Chronicle; Northwestern University Press); The Desert Remembers My Name (University of Arizona Press).