Alicia Gaspar de Alba

ALICIA GASPAR DE ALBA is the author of various works of poetry, fiction and nonfiction, among them a Lambda Award-winning novel, Desert Blood: The Juarez Murders (Arte Publico Press, 2005) and Sor Juana’s Second Dream (University of New Mexico Press, 1999). A full professor of Chicana/o Studies, English and Gender Studies at UCLA, Gaspar de Alba is a native of the El Paso/Juarez border.