Carmella J. Braniger, Ph.D. (2003), Oklahoma State University, is Professor of English at Millikin University. She has published poems, chapbooks, and critical stories, and edited four volumes of Critical Storytelling since 2017.Julio Enríquez-Ornelas, Ph.D. (2014), University of California, is an Associate Professor at Millikin University. His work on Latin American and Latinx Studies appears in Prose Studies, Hispania, Journal of the MMLA, Textos Híbridos, Alchemy: Journal of Translation, El BeisMan, and Suburbano.

• AcknowledgementsList of FiguresNotes on ContributorsIntroductionCarmella J. Braniger and Julio A. Enríquez-OrnelasPART 1: En La Línea1 Remember, Roots Still Grow Beneath: Learning from Conscious Transfronteriza/o/x TraumaLiliana Conlisk Gallegos2 Field Notes from the Borderlands: Reflections on Reading, Writing, and TravelSantiago Vaquera-Vásquez3 The Playas de Tijuana Mural Project: Digital Storytelling, Portraiture and U.S.-Mexico Border ArtLizbeth De La Cruz Santana4 Life on the U.S.-Mexico Border, 1970–1980Víctor M. Macías-GonzálezPART 2: Wild Tongues5 Criterion Number 3: Unstable Sense of Self; ca. 1993Paul Pedroza6 Regresando a CasaJumko Ogata7 “Me, Foreign Woman”Andrea Gómez8 LiminalityRachel Neff9 Two PoemsAna Silvia Monzón MonterrosoPART 3: Thin Edge of Barbwire10 Welcome to Colonia Libertad, 2007–to Date & From Album of FencesJorge Omar Ramírez Pimienta11 SalamandraFiliberto Mares Hernández12 “Heart of the Borderland (Corazón Fronterizo)” & “La Rosa de El Paso”Isabela Ortega13 “My Friends from Work”Fidel García Reyes14 Las casas y nosotrosVerónica Gaona14 Las casas y nosotrosVerónica Gaona15 “I Am Enough”Erica ReyesPART 4: Shadow Beast16 That’s Not My Name: A Journey of ReclamationMarisa V. Cervantes17 Esta puente/mi espalda: Interseccionalidad entre feminismo y chicanismoRoxana Fragoso Carrillo18 Two Poems & A StoryJuana Moriel-Payne19 Cilantro Taconeo, Manos de Maiz, Texas Masa & RuidoKiri Avelar20 Shadow SeriesCarol MarianoPART 5: Writing as a Sensuous Act21 “when i say diaspora”José Olivarez22 La mujer de papa, arroz y yucaLina Paredes Espitia23 Hecho a Mano, “Made by Hand”Raphaella Prange24 La Chip TruckFelipe Quetzal25 xxxJulio Enríquez-OrnelasEpilog: Coloniality Incarnate: Conversational Assemblage with LilianaConlisk Gallegos, Omar Pimenta & Julio Enríquez-OrnelasCarmella Braniger

Carmella J. Braniger, Ph.D. (2003), Oklahoma State University, is Professor of English at Millikin University. She has published poems, chapbooks, and critical stories, and edited four volumes of Critical Storytelling since 2017.Julio Enríquez-Ornelas, Ph.D. (2014), University of California, is an Associate Professor at Millikin University. His work on Latin American and Latinx Studies appears in Prose Studies, Hispania, Journal of the MMLA, Textos Híbridos, Alchemy: Journal of Translation, El BeisMan, and Suburbano.

• AcknowledgementsList of FiguresNotes on ContributorsIntroductionCarmella J. Braniger and Julio A. Enríquez-OrnelasPART 1: En La Línea1 Remember, Roots Still Grow Beneath: Learning from Conscious Transfronteriza/o/x TraumaLiliana Conlisk Gallegos2 Field Notes from the Borderlands: Reflections on Reading, Writing, and TravelSantiago Vaquera-Vásquez3 The Playas de Tijuana Mural Project: Digital Storytelling, Portraiture and U.S.-Mexico Border ArtLizbeth De La Cruz Santana4 Life on the U.S.-Mexico Border, 1970–1980Víctor M. Macías-GonzálezPART 2: Wild Tongues5 Criterion Number 3: Unstable Sense of Self; ca. 1993Paul Pedroza6 Regresando a CasaJumko Ogata7 “Me, Foreign Woman”Andrea Gómez8 LiminalityRachel Neff9 Two PoemsAna Silvia Monzón MonterrosoPART 3: Thin Edge of Barbwire10 Welcome to Colonia Libertad, 2007–to Date & From Album of FencesJorge Omar Ramírez Pimienta11 SalamandraFiliberto Mares Hernández12 “Heart of the Borderland (Corazón Fronterizo)” & “La Rosa de El Paso”Isabela Ortega13 “My Friends from Work”Fidel García Reyes14 Las casas y nosotrosVerónica Gaona14 Las casas y nosotrosVerónica Gaona15 “I Am Enough”Erica ReyesPART 4: Shadow Beast16 That’s Not My Name: A Journey of ReclamationMarisa V. Cervantes17 Esta puente/mi espalda: Interseccionalidad entre feminismo y chicanismoRoxana Fragoso Carrillo18 Two Poems & A StoryJuana Moriel-Payne19 Cilantro Taconeo, Manos de Maiz, Texas Masa & RuidoKiri Avelar20 Shadow SeriesCarol MarianoPART 5: Writing as a Sensuous Act21 “when i say diaspora”José Olivarez22 La mujer de papa, arroz y yucaLina Paredes Espitia23 Hecho a Mano, “Made by Hand”Raphaella Prange24 La Chip TruckFelipe Quetzal25 xxxJulio Enríquez-OrnelasEpilog: Coloniality Incarnate: Conversational Assemblage with LilianaConlisk Gallegos, Omar Pimenta & Julio Enríquez-OrnelasCarmella Braniger

Carmella J. Braniger, Ph.D. (2003), Oklahoma State University, is Professor of English at Millikin University. She has published poems, chapbooks, and critical stories, and edited four volumes of Critical Storytelling since 2017.Julio Enríquez-Ornelas, Ph.D. (2014), University of California, is an Associate Professor at Millikin University. His work on Latin American and Latinx Studies appears in Prose Studies, Hispania, Journal of the MMLA, Textos Híbridos, Alchemy: Journal of Translation, El BeisMan, and Suburbano.

• AcknowledgementsList of FiguresNotes on ContributorsIntroductionCarmella J. Braniger and Julio A. Enríquez-OrnelasPART 1: En La Línea1 Remember, Roots Still Grow Beneath: Learning from Conscious Transfronteriza/o/x TraumaLiliana Conlisk Gallegos2 Field Notes from the Borderlands: Reflections on Reading, Writing, and TravelSantiago Vaquera-Vásquez3 The Playas de Tijuana Mural Project: Digital Storytelling, Portraiture and U.S.-Mexico Border ArtLizbeth De La Cruz Santana4 Life on the U.S.-Mexico Border, 1970–1980Víctor M. Macías-GonzálezPART 2: Wild Tongues5 Criterion Number 3: Unstable Sense of Self; ca. 1993Paul Pedroza6 Regresando a CasaJumko Ogata7 “Me, Foreign Woman”Andrea Gómez8 LiminalityRachel Neff9 Two PoemsAna Silvia Monzón MonterrosoPART 3: Thin Edge of Barbwire10 Welcome to Colonia Libertad, 2007–to Date & From Album of FencesJorge Omar Ramírez Pimienta11 SalamandraFiliberto Mares Hernández12 “Heart of the Borderland (Corazón Fronterizo)” & “La Rosa de El Paso”Isabela Ortega13 “My Friends from Work”Fidel García Reyes14 Las casas y nosotrosVerónica Gaona14 Las casas y nosotrosVerónica Gaona15 “I Am Enough”Erica ReyesPART 4: Shadow Beast16 That’s Not My Name: A Journey of ReclamationMarisa V. Cervantes17 Esta puente/mi espalda: Interseccionalidad entre feminismo y chicanismoRoxana Fragoso Carrillo18 Two Poems & A StoryJuana Moriel-Payne19 Cilantro Taconeo, Manos de Maiz, Texas Masa & RuidoKiri Avelar20 Shadow SeriesCarol MarianoPART 5: Writing as a Sensuous Act21 “when i say diaspora”José Olivarez22 La mujer de papa, arroz y yucaLina Paredes Espitia23 Hecho a Mano, “Made by Hand”Raphaella Prange24 La Chip TruckFelipe Quetzal25 xxxJulio Enríquez-OrnelasEpilog: Coloniality Incarnate: Conversational Assemblage with LilianaConlisk Gallegos, Omar Pimenta & Julio Enríquez-OrnelasCarmella Braniger