Ray Gonzalez
Author of Sudden Fiction Latino: Short-Short Stories from the United States and Latin America
About the Author
Ray Gonzalez is the author of fourteen books and also has edited more than a dozen anthologies of poetry and fiction. He is the recipient of many awards, including the Carr P. Collins/Texas Institute of Letters Award, the PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles Book Award, and the Latino Heritage Award.
Works by Ray Gonzalez
Sudden Fiction Latino: Short-Short Stories from the United States and Latin America (2010) — Editor — 69 copies
Currents from the Dancing River: Contemporary Latino Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry (1994) — Editor; Contributor — 48 copies
Touching the Fire: Fifteen Poets of Today's Latino Renaissance (1998) — Editor; Contributor — 20 copies
Associated Works
From Totems to Hip-Hop: A Multicultural Anthology of Poetry Across the Americas 1900-2002 (2002) — Contributor — 172 copies
Field of Fantasies: Baseball Stories of the Strange and Supernatural (2014) — Contributor — 44 copies
Hecho en Tejas: An Anthology of Texas-Mexican Literature (Southwestern Writers Collection) (2006) — Contributor — 27 copies
Tagged
Common Knowledge
- Birthdate
- 1952
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- El Paso, Texas, USA
- Places of residence
- Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
- Education
- Southwest Texas State University (Texas State University)
University of Texas (El Paso) - Occupations
- poet
essayist
editor
creative writing professor - Organizations
- University of Minnesota
University of Illinois at Chicago - Awards and honors
- Four Corners Book Award (Poetry, 1988)
Colorado Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts (1988)
PEN-Oakland Josephine Miles Book Award for Excellence in Literature (1997)
Minnesota Book Award (Poetry, 2001)
Western Heritage Foundation Award (Short Fiction, 2002)
Loft McKnight Fellowship in Poetry (2002-2003)
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Reviews
This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers.I love the Sudden Fiction series! Flash fiction is one of my favorite story styles, and Sudden Fiction Latino delivers tasty bite-sized morsels with sweetness and bite. I'm always in favor of reading more literature in translation, and here's hoping that this collection heralds a new onslaught of international flash fiction translated into English for U.S. release.
This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers.Sudden Fiction Latino was my first foray into the short-short story. Overall, it was a good experience, but a few of the stories really left you wanting more-which is part of the point, I suppose.
The collection is quite varied, ranging from the common to the surreal. The collection also is also broad in terms of the writers. Most readers will recognize a few names, but there are many new voices represented here too.
Because the stories are so short, it's a great book to have at hand for those times when you have a few minutes to spare for some pleasure reading and don't want to attempt a longer work in piecemeal fashion.… (more)
The collection is quite varied, ranging from the common to the surreal. The collection also is also broad in terms of the writers. Most readers will recognize a few names, but there are many new voices represented here too.
Because the stories are so short, it's a great book to have at hand for those times when you have a few minutes to spare for some pleasure reading and don't want to attempt a longer work in piecemeal fashion.… (more)
Awards
Renaming the Earth: Personal Essays (Camino Del Sol) (Finalist – Memoir & Creative Nonfiction – 2009)
Consideration of the Guitar: New and Selected Poems (American Poets Continuum) (Finalist – Poetry – 2006)
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Statistics
- Works
- 39
- Also by
- 14
- Members
- 413
- Popularity
- #58,991
- Rating
- 3.7
- Reviews
- 16
- ISBNs
- 51
- Languages
- 1
This collection of short stories has many well-known authors. I was aware of a few and had read some of their previous material but what touched me was discovering voices and stories so similar to ones I've heard. Not only were there South American authors but some from the US as well. There were many that included that magical realism that I've grown accustomed to in Latin American novels as well as wistful anecdotes, or at least that was the vibe that I got with some of them.
I can't wait to dig deeper into the bibliography of some of the authors that I discovered with this book and hopefully the next person I share my copy with will find something they enjoy as well.… (more)