Francisco Cantú

Francisco Cantú is a writer, translator, and former U.S. Border Patrol agent who served from 2008 to 2012 in the deserts of Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas. He is the author of The Line Becomes a River, a memoir based on his experiences at the border, which won the 2018 Los Angeles Times Book Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Cantú is a former Fulbright fellow and has received a Pushcart Prize and a 2017 Whiting Award.