Fred Arroyo is the author of
Western Avenue and Other Fictions, shortlisted for the 2014 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing, and the novel
The Region of Lost Names. A recipient of an Individual Artist Program Grant from the Indiana Arts Commission, Fred’s fiction, poetry, and essays have been published in various literary journals and anthologies including
The Colors of Nature: Culture, Identity, and the
Natural World and Camino del Sol: Fifteen Years of Latina and Latino Writing. He is currently completing a book of essays in which he lyrically meditates on work, reading and writing, migration, and place—those sources of creativity arising from living and working in the Midwest, growing up bilingual on the East Coast, and being caught between urban and rural worlds. You can read a recent essay by Fred
here.