Dagoberto Gilb

About The Author

Dagoberto Gilb is the author of three books from UNM Press, The Magic of Blood, winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award and a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, the anthology Hecho en Tejas, winner of the PEN/Southwest Book Award, and A Passing West: Essays from the Borderlands, winner of the 2025 PEN/Diamonstein/Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in both the New Yorker and Harper’s, and his work has been featured in Best American Essays and O. Henry Prize Stories.

Books by Dagoberto Gilb

A Passing West

Essays from the Borderlands

By Dagoberto Gilb
Winner of the Pen/Diamondstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. Essays on the west and the Chicano movement, by one of its literary vanguards.
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