In most of my novels, short stories and poetry, readers and literary scholars encounter the elements of history, theory, plus a touch of the fantastic as constants in my work. Professor Linda Hutcheon’s theory of Historiographic Metafiction has throughout the years impacted my work as a writer. As such, I navigate history and fiction not as separate, but as simultaneous modes of writing: Historio (History) – graphic (Write)   Meta (beyond) – fiction. And in this circuit of meaning-making the intentions are: *To write beyond fiction; *To be critical of history; *To question history; *To find new truths of the past. My books are epistemological discourse(s) that assist in discovery of characters and the details of the world in which they live. If you read my novels as fiction you are reading history. If you read my novels as history you are reading fiction.

Alejandro Morales, the son of Mexican immigrants, earned his B.A. from California State University, Los Angeles, and a M. A. and P.h. D. from Rutgers University, Morales is a professor in the Department of Chicano Latino Studies at the University of California, Irvine. Writing in Spanish and English over a span of 50 years he has more than a dozen books, including The Brick People, The Rag Doll Plagues, Caras viejas y vino nuevo/Old Faces And New Wine, recognized as classics in Chicano/Latino literature. His most recent novel is The Place of the White Heron released in 2023. Currently he is working on A Rainbow of Colors a novel about his in-laws who worked for United States oil companies and lived in Japan from 1920 to 1941.