Antonio Ruiz-Camacho’s debut collection Barefoot Dogs won the Jesse H. Jones Award for Best Work of Fiction, was named a best book of the year by ;Kirkus Reviews and San Francisco Chronicle, and was published in Spanish translation by himself as Los perros descalzos. A National Magazine Award finalist, his work has appeared in The New York Times, Salon, Texas Monthly, Texas Highways, and elsewhere. Born and raised in Toluca, Mexico, he moved to the US at the age of 31 and began to write in English at 35. He earned his MFA from UT Austin’s New Writers Project and has been a fellow at the JSK Journalism Program at Stanford, the Dobie Paisano Program, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and Yaddo.