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Francisco Cantú

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Francisco Cantú

United States

Francisco Cantú served as a border patrol agent for the United States Border Patrol from 2008 to 2012. He is a former Fulbright fellow and the recipient of a 2017 Whiting Award. His essays and translations appear frequently in Guernica, and his work can also be found in The Best American Essays 2016, Ploughshares, Orion, and This American Life....

He lives in Tucson, Arizona. His debut memoir, The Line Becomes a River, will be published by Riverhead Books in February 2018.

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Articles by Francisco Cantú

“I’m learning to fly, to levitate myself”—A Multilingual Most Exquisite Corpse Story
By Filip Springer, Francisco Cantú, Abdourahman A. Waberi & Karolina Ramqvist
For the Lit Crawl portion of this year’s PEN World Voices Festival, Words Without Borders and Slice Literary partnered to present a multilingual exquisite corpse, a story written by four international…
Translated by Sean Gasper Bye, Francisco Cantú, José Garcia, David Ball, Nicole Ball & Saskia Vogel