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Carlos Flores is a native of El Paso, Texas and is the winner of the Chicano/Latino Literary Prize. As director of the Teatro Chicano de Laredo and former director of the South Texas Writing Project, he has long been engaged in the promotion of new writers and writing about the Mexican American experience. He is the author of "Our House on Hueco" and "Sex as a Political Condition."
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Elvita tells a compelling story that paints an accurate portrait of life on the border in "Hurdles in the Dark." She is a former collegiate athlete at the University of Incarnate Word, is the founder of Writers Inkubator, and Project Ella which provides educational resources and scholarships to student athletes.
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C.J Box is the author of Joe Pickett television series and executive producer of ABC's "Big Sky," based off of his Cody Hoyt/Cassie Dewell novels. He has won the Edgar, Anthony, Macavity, Gumshoe, French Elle Magazine Literary Award, French Prix Calibre .38, and two Barry Awards.