Back Issues
Since 2011, Huizache has been at the forefront of Latinx literature and art. It has featured works by poet laureates, MacArthur and Guggenheim fellows, and winners of many prestigious awards. Huizache has also shared the talents of new writers who have moved on to publish celebrated books. On the first ten issues is cover art by César A. Martínez, Patssi Valdez, Gronk, Lalo Alcaraz, Diane Gamboa, John Valadez, Isabel Castro, Chuy Benitez, Ester Hernandez, and Malaquias Montoya, and within its pages are works by Juan Felipe Herrera, Sandra Cisneros, Gary Soto, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Tim Seibles, Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Naomi Shihab Nye, Héctor Tobar, Domingo Martinez, Terrance Hayes, Laurie Ann Guerrero, ire’ne lara silva, Cornelius Eady, Jésus Salvador Treviño, Dagoberto Gilb, Alicia Gaspar de Alba and countless others. As promised in its first issue, Huizache continues to provide a home for voices that are often overlooked or, when seen, deliberately ignored. To hold the entire collection of Huizache is to hold the history of a people that is as persistent and gold as the magazine’s namesake, the huizache tree.
Milestone ISSUE
Huizache 10 Special Edition
We celebrate the milestone of our tenth issue with a special edition dust jacket that pays homage to legendary Chicana writer Helena María Viramontes, whose fascinating novel-in-progress is excerpted inside. We also feature the work of living icon Gioconda Belli, stellar short stories from Charles Rice-Gonzalez and Michael Jaime-Becerra, and a previously unpublished novel excerpt from the late Colombian queer poet and activist tatiana de la tierra. As in every issue, Huizache presents a stunningly diverse array of poetry that spans generations and communities. Huizache’s tenth issue bursts with writers challenging, subverting, and upending the dominant narratives that reinforce the status quo—together this chorus of voices forges a vision of a new America.
Huizache 9
Fall 2022
The nation’s leading Latinx literary magazine now calls California’s Central Valley home, so it’s fitting that Huizache 9 features valley grown legends like Luis Valdez, Juan Felipe Herrera, and Gary Soto, with cover art from Chicana icon Ester Hernandez. Only Huizache showcases the well-knowns like Tim Seibles, Emmy Pérez, and Willie Perdomo with new generation voices like Sara Borjas, Carribean Fragoza, and José Olivarez. And we mix in the soon-to-be well known poets Monica Rico, Natasha Carrizosa, Jose Hernandez Diaz, and Andrés Cerpa, future-star fiction from María Isabel Álvarez, and a portfolio of striking images from Fronterizo/Bordeño printmakers: this is Huizache’s ninth edition!
Huizache 8
Fall 2018
HUIZACHE 8 features cover art by Houston photographer Chuy Benitez, of everyone’s favorite Chico’s Tacos in El Paso; its interior art is no less powerful, with graphic pieces by Portland’s Letra Chueca and drawings by Santa Fe’s Israel Francisco Haros Lopez. But of course HUIZACHE is about the literature: poetry by the well-known Sheryl Luna, Maceo Montoya and the always so many young, soon to be luminaries from all over the Southwest, Puerto Rico, and deep into México. Fiction in h8 has one of its best showing in stories by Daniel Chacón, Jaime Gomez, Michael Leal García, and two excerpts from two books set to become monster national reads: a novel by Houston/Liberian Wayétu Moore, and a new memoir by Sacramento/Mexicana Reyna Grande.
Huizache 7
Fall 2017
HUIZACHE 7 features cover art by emerging Latinx illustrator Isabel Castro, a young San Antonio native, and a spellbinding collection of work from internationally prominent literary icons Sandra Cisneros, Gary Soto, Dagoberto Gilb, and Alicia Gaspar de Alba. There are remarkable “lesser-knowns”: Tucson’s Farid Matuk and Cassie Gonzales, LA’s Raquel Gutiérrez, Mexico City’s Gabriela Jauregui, San Diego-bred veteran Taco Shop Poet Adolfo Guzmán-López, and Utah-born Mario Chard. Illustrations are from comic book legend Jaime Crespo, and the young Daniel Parada and Breena Nuñez Peralta—art that was curated by Latino Comics Expo co-founder Ricardo Padilla.
Huizache 6
Fall 2016
HUIZACHE 6 features the spectacular cover art by legendary Chicano artist John Valadez and offers prose from El Paso’s Christine Granados, Denver’s Sheryl Luna, Oakland’s Aida Salazar; from award-winning playwright Octavio Solis, filmmaker/author Jesús Salvador Treviño, and New Orleans’s Bryan Washington. Poets in h6 include California’s Lisa Alvarez, Texas’s Abigail Carl-Klassen, Mexico’s Christina Rivera Garza, New York’s Paco Marquez, Michigan’s Rachel Nelson and New Mexico’s Joaquin Zihuatanejo. A selection of linocuts by LA printmaker Daniel González is also within the magazine’s pages.
Huizache 5
Fall 2015
HUIZACHE 5 is as stunning as its predecessors: a ’60s throwback cover by Los Angeles artist Diane Gamboa, full-color plates by Caribbean painter Claude Fiddler, poetry by one of the East Coast’s most beloved poets, Cornelius Eady, fiction by the still-rising Chicano star Manuel Muñoz, an essay by a Chicana already in the pantheon, Denise Chávez, a mythic origin memoir by a homeless Colombiana in New York City, María López. Huizache offers work from the edges, from the corners, and from our side of America: El Paso, San Antonio, Chicago, Tucson, Austin, San Francisco, Mexicali, Fullerton, San Diego, Fresno, Los Angeles. Alongside work by the well-known devorah major, Glenn Taylor, Pat LittleDog, and ire’ne lara silva, h5 proudly welcomes new voices such as Fernando Flores, Vanessa Diaz, and Javier Zamora.
Huizache 4
Fall 2014
HUIZACHE 4 is its thickest, and arguably its fullest and best so far. As in the past three issues, some of the most nationally distinguished poets and writers are contributors: Rubén Martínez, Sandra Cisneros, Terrance Hayes, Rolando Hinojosa, Carmen Giménez Smith, and Dana Johnson. And then there are the soon-to-be well-known: Sheryl Luna, Yona Harvey, Maceo Montoya, Rio Cortez, Steven Ramirez, Marcelo Hernandez Castillo, and Laurie Ann Guerrero. And they are only a few! As always, we are especially thrilled to give you our much anticipated cover art by infamous cartoonist—and soon-to-be yet more notorious when his animated TV show “Bordertown” appears this coming spring on the Fox network—Lalo Alcaraz. How can we not love that HUIZACHE has its own punk Frida??
Huizache 3
Fall 2013
HUIZACHE 3 follows in the path of those previous with yet another display of original literature and unique voices from this side of America. We are proud to present the work of such honored writers as Tim Seibles, Domingo Martinez, Cristina García, Juan Felipe Herrera, and Héctor Tobar, while highlighting the early work of David Campos, Tameka Cage Conley, Casandra Lopez, and Joshunda Sanders–and many others. With our stunning new design both inside and out, a cover from the art of LA’s fabulous and famed Gronk, our #3 issue is poetry and prose not just from the Latino world, though much is, not just from the West, though much is, but from a new American country.
Huizache 2
Fall 2012
HUIZACHE 2 follows the lead of its inaugural edition, featuring the leading voices in Latino literature—Lorna Dee Cervantes, Gary Soto, Luis J. Rodriguez, Michele Serros, Rigoberto González—as well names from the Southwest and nation—Naomi Shihab Nye, Beverly Lowry, Achy Obejas, and Carrie Fountain. With this issue, we add the just beginning, younger voices of Matt Mendez, Beverly Parayno, Melisa Garcia, Lupe Mendez, Laurie Ann Guerrero, and many more from across the nation and continent. An added feature is a tribute to the anti-book banning in Arizona, Librotraficante Movement, with prose by its leader, Tony Diaz, and poems in support by Margaret Randall and Levi Romero. Finally, there is the fine art, which Huizache intends to keep as a tradition. The cover is by Patssi Valdez, arguably the best artist working in Los Angeles today, and the gorgeous panoramic photography of Houston’s acclaimed Chuy Benitez.
Huizache 1
Fall 2011
HUIZACHE’s debut issue includes prose and poetry from Sherman Alexie, Hettie Jones, Maria Venegas, Willie Perdomo, Aracelis Girmay, Tim Z. Hernandez, Sheryl Luna, Edward C. Corral, Alex Espinoza, Diana Garcia, Estella Gonzalez, Juan Felipe Herrera, José Montoya, Gary Soto, Sandra Cisneros, Sasha Pimentel-Chacón, Tonantzín Canestaro-García, David Garza, Emmy Pérez, Benjamin Alire Saenz, Tim Seibles, and Rene Perez, with original art from the renowned César A. Martínez.