MIGRATION AND MEMORY

Tim Z. Hernandez is an award-winning author, research scholar, and performer. His work includes fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. He is the recipient of an American Book Award and the International Latino Book Award, and his work has been featured in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, C-SPAN, NPR’s All Things Considered, and many others. Hernandez holds an Masters of Fine Arts in Writing & Literature from Bennington College and he is an Associate Professor with the University of Texas El Paso’s Bilingual Creative Writing program. His book, All They Will Call You, chronicles his research locating the victims of the 1948 plane wreck at Los Gatos Canyon, for which he was honored by the California State Senate. The second installment, a memoir based on the search, is They Call You Back: A Lost History, A Search, A Memoir.