Everything Begins and Ends At the Kentucky Club

Benjamin Alire Sáenz (born August 16, 1954, in Old Picacho, New Mexico) is a Mexican-American author, poet, and educator whose work spans literary fiction, poetry, and young adult literature. He grew up in a small New Mexican border community and was educated at the University of Louvain in Belgium and at the University of Texas at El Paso, where he later joined the faculty. He is a professor of creative writing at UTEP and a leading figure in Chicano/Latino literature. Read more →