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Speaking of Stories transforming
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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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