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Benjamin Alire Sáenz

(1954 - )

About Benjamin Alire Sáenz

Benjamin Alire Sáenz is an American Book Award-winning author of poetry and prose for adults and teens. Sammy and Juliana in Hollywood was an ALA Top Ten Book for Young Adults and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. A former Wallace E. Stegner Fellow in poetry, he is a professor in the creative writing department at University of Texas, El Paso.

New and Forthcoming Hardbacks

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

New and Forthcoming Paperbacks

Last Night I Sang to the Monster

The Dog Who Loved Tortillas / La perrita que le encantaban las tortillas

Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club

Novels

Carry Me Like Water (1994)
The House of Forgetting (1997)
Sammy & Juliana in Hollywood (2004)
In Perfect Light (2005)
Names On a Map (2008)
He Forgot to Say Goodbye (2008)
Last Night I Sang to the Monster (2009)
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (2012)

Collections

Calendar of Dust (poems) (1991)
Flowers for the Broken (1992)
Dark and Perfect Angels (poems) (1994)
Que Linda Ia Brisa (poems) (2001) (with Jimmy Santiago Baca)
Elegies in Blue (poems) (2002)
Dreaming the End of War (poems) (2006)
The Book of What Remains (poems) (2010)
Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club (2012)

Picture Books

A Gift from Pap Diego (1998)
A Perfect Season for Dreaming / Un tiempo perfecto para so�ar (2008)
The Dog Who Loved Tortillas / La perrita que le encantaban las tortillas (2009)

Non fiction

Finding Your Literary Voice (1995)

Links to other websites

benjaminaliresaenz.com

Benjamin Alire Sáenz recommends

Serpent Box (2008)
Vincent Louis Carrella
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