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Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Benjamin Alire Sáenz was an American poet, novelist and author of books for children and young adults, born in Old Picacho, New Mexico, and raised on a small farm near Mesilla. He studied for the priesthood, was ordained in 1981 and left the ministry a few years later, then took an MA in creative writing at the University of Texas at El Paso, where he later taught in the bilingual MFA program. His first collection, Calendar of Dust (1991), won an American Book Award. He is best known for the you...