''Rio Grande Review'' was a biannual, bilingual (Spanish and English) magazine of

contemporary literature Contemporary literature is literature which is generally set after World War II in the English-speaking world. Subgenres of contemporary literature include contemporary romance. History Literary movements are always contemporary to the writer dis ...

and

arts The arts are a very wide range of human practices of creative expression, storytelling and cultural participation. They encompass multiple diverse and plural modes of thinking, doing and being, in an extremely broad range of media. Both ...

established in September 1981 in

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. It was published by the

University of Texas at El Paso The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) is a public research university in El Paso, Texas. It is a member of the University of Texas System. UTEP is the second-largest university in the United States to have a majority Mexican American stud ...

and edited by students of its

Creative Writing Creative writing is any writing that goes outside the bounds of normal professional, journalistic, academic, or technical forms of literature, typically identified by an emphasis on narrative craft, character development, and the use of literary ...

program. In 2013 forty issues were published, some of them dedicated to special topics such as aversions,

violence Violence is the use of physical force so as to injure, abuse, damage, or destroy. Other definitions are also used, such as the World Health Organization's definition of violence as "the intentional use of physical force or power, threatened ...

kitsch Kitsch ( ; loanword from German) is a term applied to art and design that is perceived as naïve imitation, overly-eccentric, gratuitous, or of banal taste. The avant-garde opposed kitsch as melodramatic and superficial affiliation wi ...

and

camp Camp may refer to: Outdoor accommodation and recreation * Campsite or campground, a recreational outdoor sleeping and eating site * a temporary settlement for nomads * Camp, a term used in New England, Northern Ontario and New Brunswick to descri ...

visual poetry Literary theorists have identified visual poetry as a development of concrete poetry but with the characteristics of intermedia in which non-representational language and visual elements predominate. Differentiation from concrete poetry As the l ...

and

graphic narrative In comics studies, sequential art is a term proposed by comics artist Will EisnerWill Eisner, ''Comics and Sequential Art'', Poorhouse Press, 1990 (1st ed.: 1985), p. 5. to describe art forms that use images deployed in a specific order for the pur ...

, among others. The magazine promoted world and border literature between Mexico and the United States. Previous editors included Paul Guillén and Juan Pablo Plata. The magazine folded with the Fall 2012-Spring 2013 issue.

Autores en español publicados

*Sergio Ramírez *Andrés Neuman *Agustín Fernández Mallo *Ricardo Piglia *Carlos Fonseca *Alí Calderón * Luis Arturo Ramos * Alejandro Zambra * Ricardo Piglia * Betina González * Yuri Herrera * Daniel Centeno * Iván Thays * Jon Lee Anderson * Jaime Manrique * Benjamin Alire Sainz (Premio Pen/Faulkner) * Julián Herbert * José Carlos Sánchez-Lara (Premio Nogueras)

Editors

* Margarita Mejía * Juan Álvarez * Danial Ríos * Betina González * Daniel Centeno * Mijail Lamas * Criseida Santos Guevara * Carolina Dávila * Mario Martz * Amber Miller * Mónica Teresa Ortiz * Andrea Salgado * Mari Gómez * Fabián Molina

References

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