David dorado romo biography templates

PERSONAL:

Education:Stanford University, graduate; attended the Centro d'Attivita Musicale, Florence, Italy, and the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel.

CAREER:

Writer, historian, essayist, translator, musician, and cultural activist.

WRITINGS:

Ringside Seat to a Revolution: An Underground Cultural History of El Paso and Juarez, 1893-1923, Cinco Puntos Press (El Paso, TX), 2005.

Las Soldaderas: Women of the Mexican Revolution, Cinco Puntos Press (El Paso, TX), 2006.

SIDELIGHTS:

David Dorado Romo is a writer, translator, musician, and historian from the American southwest.

He is a "fronterizo," a person who grew up and lived on the border between the United States and Mexico, separated by the Rio Grande River, with El Paso on the American side and Juarez on the Mexican side. The son of Mexican immigrant parents, Romo experienced life in both countries at different times.

Throughout his youth in El Paso and Juarez, he felt the lingering presence of