Santiago Vaquera-Vásquez is an unrepentant border crosser, ex-dj, writer, painter, and academic. He teaches Creative Writing and Hispanic Southwest Literatures and Cultures in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of New Mexico, and has also taught and lectured at the University of Iowa, Penn State, the Universidad de Salamanca, the Universidad de Alcalá de Henares, the Universidad Pompeu Fabra, and at Texas A&M University. Author of three collections of short stories, Algún día te cuento las cosas que he visto 2012 , Luego el silencio 2014 , One Day I’ll Tell You the Things I’ve Seen 2015 . His literary work has been published in anthologies in Spain, Italy, Latin America and the United States. In this interview he talks about his writing, what inspired him, and what he believes is unique about a Latin@ author.