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DAGOBERTO GILB

Dagoberto Gilb was born in Los Angeles and attended junior colleges and then the University of California where he earned degrees in philosophy and religion.  After college, he moved to El Paso.  His first publications were in the literary journals Puerto Del Sol and The Threepenny Review.  Gilb spent 16 years making his living as a construction worker, 12 of those as a journeyman, high-rise carpenter with the United Brotherhood of Carpenters.  He is the author of The Magic of Blood, which won the 1994 PEN/Hemingway Award and was a PEN/Faulkner finalist.  He is also the author of The Last Known Residence of Mickey Acuņa, a New York Times Book of the Year, Woodcuts of Women, and Gritos, which was a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award.   He has published fiction and nonfiction in many magazines, including The New Yorker, Harpers, The Texas Observer, Latina, and GQ. 

 

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