“Christopher David Rosales writes with rare skill and real power about a high-stakes, heart-breaking world filled with beauty and the bullet-hot barrels of guns […and he does it] with clear eyes, fine prose and courage.”
ABOUT
Christopher David Rosales is a Chicano novelist and short-story writer from Los Angeles. He is the author of Gods On the Lam (2017, Perpetual Motion Machine), and Word Is Bone (2019, Broken River Books) winner of the International Latino Book Award. His award-winning short stories have appeared in Both Sides: An Anthology of Border Noir (2020, Polis/Agora Books), among other anthologies, journals, and magazines in the U.S. and abroad.
Rosales’ editorial work earned him a second International Latino Book Award for Anthology of Dreams from an Impossible Journey. The bilinguial collection of essays by Dreamers were written in mindfulness-based creative writing workshops designed by Rosales & co-developed with Luz Vasquez-Ramos of the California-Mexico Studies Center.
Select Talks & Events
Publishing Underrepresented Voices
Legacy publishing has a long history of prizing white, straight, male voices over those of women, people of color, and LGBTQ+ writers. How do writers from traditionally underrepresented communities break through and build a career, given the industry’s imbalances?
Staring at an Eclipse: Writing What Is Too Hard to Write
Sometimes a writer wrestles with a topic or theme so monumental, so heartbreaking, so profound that it seems impossible to even write about. How do you begin to tackle some of the questions that threaten to overwhelm all of us: those of bottomless grief and boundless love?
A UCSC event bringing together writers and artists of color who are reimagining the past, present, and future via speculative fiction.
Density, Intensity and Identity: Innovative Writing Forms
How does “experimentation” generate interlaced questions about art as it lives on maps, in texts, and in bodies that produce their own readings?
A nationally-coordinated reading event to raise money for the Immigrant Families Together (IFT) Project.
A collaborative transnational project that interrogates the cultural and artistic questions that develop from LatinX migration. CrossBorder includes leading scholars, artists, and writers from both sides of the Southern border who are creating work that directly deals with migration, both literal and cultural, of LatinX populations.
Additional Author Interviews
Interview with Chicano crime writer Manuel Ramos
Interview with Erik Deckers
"BULLshot" Interview
