Alberto Rios

Alberto Ríos is a Regents' Professor and the Katharine C. Turner Endowed Chair in English at Arizona State University. He is the author of three collections of short stories, a memoir, and nine books and chapbooks of poetry, most recently, The Theater of Night (Copper Canyon, 2006) and The Smallest Muscle in the Human Body (Copper Canyon, 2002), a finalist for the National Book Award.