Alex Espinoza

Alex Espinoza is the author of Still Water Saints, The Five Acts of Diego León, and Cruising: An Intimate History of a Radical Pastime. He’s written for the L.A. Times, the NY Times Magazine, VQR, LitHub, and NPR's All Things Considered. The recipient of fellowships from the NEA and MacDowell as well as an American Book Award, he lives in Los Angeles and is the Tomás Rivera Endowed Chair of Creative Writing at UC Riverside.

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The Complications of Identity

Héctor Tobar’s Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of “Latino” redefines the terms.

Jun 5, 2023

in his memoir, unforgetting, roberto lovato frames history through a personal lens

The Wounds of History

Roberto Lovato’s Unforgetting chronicles public and private wars.

Oct 19, 2020

An informal get-together among participants at the first Community of Writers, in 1970. From left: Marilyn Hill (UC Extension), Oakley Hall, and Blair Fuller. The Community of Writers marks its 50th anniversary this year.

A Concordance of Stories

Writer Alex Espinoza finds that surrounding himself with a community of writers only makes him better at his craft.

Jul 2, 2020