Luis Humberto Crosthwaite

This writer and editor is currently a columnist for Milenio Diario, in Mexico City, and ‘Enlace', the Spanish language section of the San Diego Union-Tribune, San Diego, California.

He has published Puro border: Dispatches, Snapshots & Graffiti from La Frontera (Cinco Puntos Press, 2003); Idos de la mente (Editorial Joaquín Mortiz, Planeta, 2001); Estrella de la Calle Sexta (Tusquets, 2000); Lo que estará en mi corazón (Ña'a ta'ka ani'mai) (Edamex-Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, 1995); The Moon Will Forever Be a Distant Love (Cinco Puntos Press, 1997); No quiero escribir no quiero (Ediciones del H, Ayuntamiento de Toluca, 1993); El gran PRETENDER (Consejo Nacional para la Cultura and las Artes, 1992); Mujeres en traje de baño caminan solitarias por las calles de su llanto (Universidad Pedagógica Nacional, 1991), and Marcela y el rey al fin juntos (Joan Boldó i Climent Editores, 1988). His editorial and literary work has received various prizes in Mexico.

He won a grant of the National Fund for Culture and the Arts in the Young Creators category in 1990, and of the State Fund for Culture and the Arts in the category of Established Writers in 1995. He is now a member of the National System of Creators.