Dagoberto Gilb

About The Author

Dagoberto Gilb is the author of three books from UNM Press, The Magic of Blood, winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award and a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, the anthology Hecho en Tejas, winner of the PEN/Southwest Book Award, and A Passing West: Essays from the Borderlands, winner of the 2025 PEN/Diamonstein/Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in both the New Yorker and Harper’s, and his work has been featured in Best American Essays and O. Henry Prize Stories.

Books by Dagoberto Gilb

Ore and Empire

Conquistadors to Guggenheims on the Camino Real

By Martin Stupich
Foreword by Dagoberto Gilb
Photography and the history of extraction combine as Marty Stupich's extraordinary images map the 600 year oppression of the lands and people from the Mexican Conquest to the Guggenheims, from deep inside present-day Mexico to southern Wyoming.
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A Passing West

Essays from the Borderlands

By Dagoberto Gilb
Winner of the Pen/Diamondstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. Essays on the west and the Chicano movement, by one of its literary vanguards.
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