Carlos Fidel Espinoza

Carlos Fidel Espinoza is a taco-loving writer, editor, and musician from the El Paso/ Juarez Frontera. His writing and music appeared on Vice, NPR, Words on A Wire, State of the Arts, and The Smithsonian Latino Center as well as in Acentos Review, Spry Literary Journal, Border Senses, Pilgrimage, and Shantih Literary Journal, among others.

He contributed to the editing of Andres Montoya’s posthumous collection of poetry, A Jury of Trees, was a featured reader at “Together We Will Be a Song, a Celebration of Andres Montoya’s Life and Work,” and his collection of poetry How to Lie to a Customs Agent” is winner of the 2021 Southwest Book Award.

Carlos also works as the editor-in-chief of Barrio Panther Literatura and advocates for literature and writing on the US / Mexico border. He has taught courses in creative writing, poetry, Chicanx literature, and Rhetoric & Composition at the University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso Community College, and Cochise College.