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My narrative nonfiction book about globalization and the village economy, No Word for Welcome, was just published by University of Nebraska Press.
Read more here.

Links to some of my essays, narrative nonfiction, reviews, and journalism are included in the lists below.

Selected Essays & Narrative Nonfiction

Selected Journalism & Analysis

Book Chapters & Anthologized Work

zapotec writing

Listen to two radio interviews about my book, No Word for Welcome:

KPFK Los Angeles, June 2011

"Conversations," Seattle, July 2011

Listen to audio recordings of two of my readings here:

Seattle University,
January 2009

Jack Straw Writers Program,
Seattle, March 2008

Photo above: This carved stela, at Monte Albán, Oaxaca, is a fine example
of Zapotec writing, still only partly
deciphered, 1995.
Photo to right: These spiny trees,
common around the city of Juchitán,
in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, gave the
city its name, 2000.
juchitan arbol