Robert Joe Stout

Author and journalist. Previous books about Mexico include Hidden Dangers, The Blood of the Serpent: Mexican Lives and Why Immigrants Come to America in addition to articles, reports, essays and creative nonfiction in dozens of print and online publications including The American Scholar, America, Open Democracy and New Politics among many others. He has served on human rights delegations, the board of directors of asilos de ancianos and the editorial staffs of newspapers and magazines. A graduate of Mexico City College (now the Universidad de las Americas) he has won national journalism awards for news writing. Other books that he’s authored include the novels Miss Sally, Running Out the Hurt and Where Gringos Don’t Belong and two volumes of poetry A Perfect Throw and Monkey Screams. He currently lives in Oaxaca, Mexico.