René Saldaña
René Saldaña teaches English and writing at the university level in south Texas. He is the author of The Jumping Tree (2001) and Finding Our Way: Stories (Random House/Wendy Lamb Books, 2003). More recently, several of his stories have appeared in anthologies such as Face Relations, Guys Write for GUYS READ, Every Man for Himself, and Make Me Over, and in magazines such as Boy’s Life and READ. Humanities Texas awarded Mr. Saldaña a grant to help promote the use of culturally relevant literature in the south Texas middle schools.