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Danny Romero earned a BA from the University of California at Berkeley and an MA from Temple University in Philadelphia, where he taught writing for many years. He currently teaches at Sacramento City College. Romero’s poems and short stories have been published in a variety of journals including Bilingual Review, Colorado Review, Drumvoices Revue, Paterson Literary Review, Pembroke Magazine, Permafrost, Ploughshares, The Raven Chronicles and Solo. His work can also be found in the anthologies West of the West: Imagining California, Pieces of the Heart: New Chicano Fiction, Los Vasos Communicantes: Antologia de Poesía Chicana (Spain), Under the Fifth Sun: Latino Literature from California, Latinos in Lotusland: An Anthology of Contemporary Southern California Literature, and Pow Wow: Charting the Faultlines in the American Experience – Short Fiction from Then to Now. He is the author of the novel Calle 10 (Mercury House, 1996), and two chapbooks of poetry. Danny Romero is also the author of Traces: a book of poetry (Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingüe, 2012).