Fred Arroyo is a winner of the Alta California Chapbook Prize for Alba and Other Songs (2024). He is also the author of Sown in Earth: Essays of Memory and Belonging, which was shortlisted for 2021-2022 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing. He is also the author of Western Avenue and Other Fictions and The Region of Lost Names. His writing has appeared in the anthologies Camino del Sol: Fifteen Years of Latina and Latino Writing and The Colors of Nature: Essays on Culture, Identity and the Natural World. Fred’s Alba is from a recently completed manuscript. He’s working on a collection of short fictions, The Book of Manuels.