Alex Espinoza is the author of the novels Still Water Saints and The Five Acts of Diego León, as well as a book of nonfiction, Cruising: An Intimate History of a Radical Pastime. He teaches at the University of California at Riverside, where he serves as the Tomás Rivera Endowed Chair of Creative Writing. He was born in Tijuana, Mexico, and raised in suburban Los Angeles.
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