Manuel Luis Martinez authored Crossing (Bilingual Press). It was nominated for a Pushcart Prize, the Premio Aztlan Fiction Award, and selected as one of the ten outstanding books by a writer of color by PEN American Center, NY. Forthcoming are his novel Drift (Picador USA), and criticism, Countering the Counterculture: Rereading American Dissent (U. of Wisconsin Press). He is a regular contributor to the Chicago Tribune and an assistant professor at Indiana University.