About

Roger Rodriguez is an award-winning author from Houston, Texas. Roger is the recipient of an International Latino Book Award and the Sliver Bookfest Award for The Long Way to Mexico. In 1998, Roger Rodriguez received an Editor’s Choice Award for outstanding poetry and the best paper in psychology at the 5th annual Guillermo Benavidez Academic Conference at Texas A&M International University. In 2008, he was featured on the Discovery Channel for his title The Grass Beneath His Feet: The Charles Victor Thompson Story, which has been translated into German, Italian, and French editions. His first work in non-fiction: Church Pastor, Child Trafficker: The Crimes of Elsa Cuellar in a Border Town is currently being made into a documentary.