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Introduction

By Christopher Soto, Guest Editor

“This feature celebrates the lives and the resistance of nine undocumented writers from an array of experiences and writing styles. Throughout this feature, there is a grappling with nationhood, assimilation, separation from home and family, love and tenderness and war, resistance and survival.”

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MARCELO HERNANDEZ CASTILLO   “What You Can Know Is What You Have Made”    |    Esparto, California, 1984
JAN-HENRY GRAY   egress
CLAUDIA D. HERNANDEZ   The River Never Happened to Me    |    The River Never Happened to Us
JANINE JOSEPH   Ivan, Always Hiding
ARTHUR KAYZAKIAN   Exiled in Los Angeles
ROSSY LIMA   Crossing the Border / Cruzar la Frontera    |    Water Path / Aguacamino
FRANCISCO LOPEZ   Icarus
VERONICA MARQUEZ   Immigrant Traveler / Viajero Immigrante
JAVIER ZAMORA   Nocturne