Maceo Montoya (Author) Maceo Montoya is an author, artist, and educator who has published books in a variety of genres, including four works of fiction: The Scoundrel and the Optimist, The Deportation of Wopper Barraza, You Must Fight Them: A Novella and Stories, and Preparatory Notes for Future Masterpieces. Montoya has also published two works of nonfiction: Letters to the Poet from His Brother, a hybrid book combining images, prose poems, and essays, and Chicano Movement for Beginners, which he both wrote and illustrated. Montoya is a professor of Chicana/o studies and English at the University of California, Davis.Javier O. Huerta (Author) Javier O. Huerta is the author of American Copia: An Immigrant Epic and Some Clarifications y otros poemas,which was awarded the 31st Chicano/Latino Literary Prize from UC Irvine. He earned his MFA from the Bilingual Creative Writing Program at the University of Texas at El Paso. His most recent book is a translation of Nicaraguan poet León Salvatierra’s collection Al Norte. Currently, he teaches at Mission College in Santa Clara and lives in Oakland, California.

Imaginative Possibilities is a timely and much-needed contribution to our critical and aesthetic conversations about Latinx literature. I deeply admire and appreciate the care with which Huerta and Montoya assembled the interviews.

Maceo Montoya (Author) Maceo Montoya is an author, artist, and educator who has published books in a variety of genres, including four works of fiction: The Scoundrel and the Optimist, The Deportation of Wopper Barraza, You Must Fight Them: A Novella and Stories, and Preparatory Notes for Future Masterpieces. Montoya has also published two works of nonfiction: Letters to the Poet from His Brother, a hybrid book combining images, prose poems, and essays, and Chicano Movement for Beginners, which he both wrote and illustrated. Montoya is a professor of Chicana/o studies and English at the University of California, Davis.Javier O. Huerta (Author) Javier O. Huerta is the author of American Copia: An Immigrant Epic and Some Clarifications y otros poemas,which was awarded the 31st Chicano/Latino Literary Prize from UC Irvine. He earned his MFA from the Bilingual Creative Writing Program at the University of Texas at El Paso. His most recent book is a translation of Nicaraguan poet León Salvatierra’s collection Al Norte. Currently, he teaches at Mission College in Santa Clara and lives in Oakland, California.

Imaginative Possibilities is a timely and much-needed contribution to our critical and aesthetic conversations about Latinx literature. I deeply admire and appreciate the care with which Huerta and Montoya assembled the interviews.

Maceo Montoya (Author) Maceo Montoya is an author, artist, and educator who has published books in a variety of genres, including four works of fiction: The Scoundrel and the Optimist, The Deportation of Wopper Barraza, You Must Fight Them: A Novella and Stories, and Preparatory Notes for Future Masterpieces. Montoya has also published two works of nonfiction: Letters to the Poet from His Brother, a hybrid book combining images, prose poems, and essays, and Chicano Movement for Beginners, which he both wrote and illustrated. Montoya is a professor of Chicana/o studies and English at the University of California, Davis.Javier O. Huerta (Author) Javier O. Huerta is the author of American Copia: An Immigrant Epic and Some Clarifications y otros poemas,which was awarded the 31st Chicano/Latino Literary Prize from UC Irvine. He earned his MFA from the Bilingual Creative Writing Program at the University of Texas at El Paso. His most recent book is a translation of Nicaraguan poet León Salvatierra’s collection Al Norte. Currently, he teaches at Mission College in Santa Clara and lives in Oakland, California.

Imaginative Possibilities is a timely and much-needed contribution to our critical and aesthetic conversations about Latinx literature. I deeply admire and appreciate the care with which Huerta and Montoya assembled the interviews.