David Dorado Romo is an essayist, historian and translator. He is the author of Ringside Seat to a Revolution: An Underground Cultural History of El Paso and Juárez, 1893-1923. His book received several awards in 2006 including the Texas Writer’s League Violet Crown, the Western Literature Association Book of the Year, the Western Writer’s of America Spur Award and the Latino Literacy Now International Book Award. He translated Questions and Swords by Subcomandante Marcos in 2001 and Soldaderas by Elena Poniatowska in 2006. Romo is a part-time instructor at the University of Texas at El Paso where he is currently co-teaching a graduate course on public history focusing on Mexican Revolution sites of memory in El Paso.
