Feb 03 2017
Antonio Ruiz-Camacho Reading

Antonio Ruiz-Camacho Reading

Presented by University of Texas at San Antonio at University of Texas at San Antonio - Main Campus

Antonio Ruiz-Camacho was born and raised in Toluca, Mexico. A former Knight Journalism fellow at Stanford University, a Dobie Paisano fellow in fiction at the University of Texas at Austin and the Texas Institute of Letters, and a Walter E. Dakin fellow in fiction at Sewanee Writers’ Conference, he earned his MFA from The New Writers Project at UT Austin. His work has appeared in The New York Times, Salon, Texas Monthly, The Millions, and elsewhere. His debut story collection Barefoot Dogs won the Jesse H. Jones Award for Best Book of Fiction, and was named a Best Book of 2015 by Kirkus Reviews, San Francisco Chronicle, Texas Observer and PRI’s The World. It was translated into Spanish as Los perros descalzos by the author, and is forthcoming in Dutch. Antonio Ruiz-Camacho lives in Austin, Texas, with his family, where he’s currently at work on a novel.

Admission Info

Free

Email: steven.kellman@utsa.edu

Dates & Times

2017/02/03 - 2017/02/03

Location Info

University of Texas at San Antonio - Main Campus

One UTSA Circle, San Antonio, TX 78249