Luis Humberto Crosthwaite

Luis Humberto Crosthwaite (born 1962 in Tijuana) is a writer, editor, and journalist whose work has appeared in a variety of international venues. His fiction works have garnered critical attention for his ability to express the complexities of living on the US/Mexico border region.

Crosthwaite spent most of his life in Tijuana before moving to San Diego, where he worked at The San Diego Union-Tribune newspaper as columnist and editor.

Currently, Crosthwaite lives in Tijuana.

Publications

English

As author The Moon Will Forever be a Distant Love, translated by Debbie Nathan and Willivaldo Delgadillo, from La luna siempre será un dificíl amor (novel, 1997) Out of their Minds (2013)

As editor Puro Border: Dispatches, Snapshots, & Graffiti from La Frontera (anthology, 2003)

As translator Once Around the Block / Una Vuelta a la Manzana, written and illustrated by José Lozano (2009) Little Chanclas, written and illustrated by José Lozano (2015) Birdie's Beauty Parlor / El Salon de Belleza de Birdie, written by Lee Merrill Byrd and illustrated by Francisco Degado (2020) Maximilian and the Curse of the Fallen Angel, written and illustrated by Xavier Garza (2020) Still Dreaming/Seguimos soñando written by Claudia Guadalupe Martinez and illustrated by Magdalena Mora (2022)

Spanish Marcela y el rey al fin juntos (short stories, 1988) Mujeres con traje de baño caminan solitarias por las playas de su llanto (short stories, 1990) El gran preténder (novella, 1990) No quiero escribir no quiero (short stories, 1993) Lo que estará en mi corazón (non-fiction, 1994) La luna siempre será un amor difícil (novel, 1994) Estrella de la calle sexta (two novellas and a short story), 2000) Idos de la mente - la increíble y (a veces) triste historia de Ramón y Cornelio (novel, 2001) Instrucciones para cruzar la frontera (short stories, 2002) Aparta de mí este cáliz (novel, 2009) Idos de la mente - la increíble y (a veces) triste historia de Ramón y Cornelio (revised edition, 2010) Tijuana: crimen y olvido (novel, 2010) Instrucciones para cruzar la frontera (revised edition, 2011)