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Arturo Magaña Amaya

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Arturo Magaña Amaya was schooled on the US/Mexico border, in the farming town of Somerton, Arizona, and the fishing town of El Golfo de Santa Clara, México. He has worked in human rights, providing aid to people who lost loved ones crossing the border. This is his first book.

Jack Crocker

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Jack Crocker is provost and executive vice president for academic affairs, and professor of English, at Western New Mexico University. He has held various faculty and administrative positions, including at the University of South Florida and Florida Gulf Coast University, where he was founding Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. Having attended college on basketball and baseball scholarships, he has a B.A. in English from Delta State University, an M.A. in English from Florida State University, and a Ph.D. in English from Texas Tech University. His poetry has been widely published in a variety of journals and anthologies. In 2009 the Texas Review Press published a collection—The Last Resort. His latest volume of poems, published by the Mimbres Press of Western New Mexico University, in September 2021, is The Algorithm of I. He lives in Silver City, New Mexico with his wife Jodi and two children, Jessi and William.