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Alex Z. Salinas is the author of four volumes of poetry and a book of stories. His poetry collections include WARBLES (2019); DREAMT, or The Lingering Phantoms of Equinox (2020); Hispanic Sonnets (2023); and Trash Poems (2023). His short-story collection, City Lights From the Upside Down (2021), was included in the National Book Critics Circle's Critical Notes. For DREAMT, Salinas received a starred review in Kirkus Reviews. His fiction and poetry have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net Anthology. Salinas earned an M.A. in English Literature and Language as a Distinguished Graduate from St. Mary's University. He was born in Corpus Christi, Texas, and lives in San Antonio.
“If Raymond Queneau was a Chicano poet from San Antonio, I imagine his fiction debut would look a lot like Alex Z. Salinas’s experimental, erudite, page-turner of a romp. A new kind of Texas novel—we need it.”
—Fernando A. Flores, author of Brother Brontë and Tears of the Trufflepig
“If you've ever wondered what the love child of Vonnegut and Bolaño would be, you need to read The Dream Life of Larry Rios. Alex Z. Salinas’s witty writing will have you swooning over its beautiful sentences and chuckling at its quirky Tejano scenarios. This book will have you listening to every song it references, picking up coffee in drive-thrus, and never underestimating a single Chicano poet ever again!”
—Ursula Villarreal-Moura, author of Like Happiness