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Introduction Juan Alvarado Valdivia is the author of ¡Cancerlandia!: A Memoir, which received Honorable Mention for the 2016 International Latino Book Award for Best Biography in English and was listed as a Top 10 Best Nonfiction Book for 2015 on TheLatinoAuthor.com. His short story collection, Ballad of a Slopsucker, was a 2020 International Latino Book Award finalist for Best Collection of Short Stories – English or Bilingual, and was chosen as Best Short Story Collection for the 2019 Latinidad List. His fiction, nonfiction, and music writing have been published in The Acentos Review, The Bay Bridged, Black Heart Magazine, BorderSenses Literary Magazine, The Cortland Review, Label Me Latina/o, Mount Hope, Origins Journal, Prairie Schooner, Somos en escrito, and Thread.