Ruben Martinez

Ruben Martinez is an Emmy Award-winning journalist, poet and performer, an associate professor in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Houston, and the author of Crossing Over: A Mexican Family on the Migrant Trail (Picador). His most recent book, The New Americans (The New Press), a series of essays on migration and the global era, is the companion to the acclaimed PBS television series of the same name. Martínez’s The Other Side: Notes from the New L.A., Mexico City and Beyond (Vintage), a collection of essays and poetry, also won widespread critical acclaim. Eastside Stories: Gang Life in East Los Angeles, a book of photographs by award-winning photographer Joseph Rodriguez, with text by Martínez, was published by PowerHouse Books in June, 1998. Martínez was Loeb Fellow at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University in 2001-2002, and he is also a recipient of a Lannan Foundation fellowship in non-fiction. He also has been a guest commentator on National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered,” was news editor at the L.A. Weekly, and won an Emmy Award as host for the KCET (PBS-Los Angeles) politics and culture series, “Life & Times.” He has appeared as a politically commentator on ABC’s Nightline, Politically Incorrect, Frontline, and on CNN. Martínez has often collaborated with musicians. He has composed and performed works included on albums such as Concete Blonde y Los Illegals (Ark-21 Records) and The Roches’ Zero Church (Redhouse Records). He is currently at work on a solo album.

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