Roberto Ontiveros

Roberto Ontiveros is an artist, critic and fiction writer; his work has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, the Threepenny Review, the Dallas Morning News, and others.
  • The Power of Ten

    From a renovated church in East Austin, its bright offices lined with posters of exotic foreign films, Eugenio del Bosque presides over a rare [...] Full Story

  • Voice-Over Lightly

    My Chaos Theory The 12 short stories that comprise My Chaos Theory were written over a span of almost 20 years. Brought together, they [...] Full Story

  • A Boy King’s Literary Coronation

    The book is a hilarious yet hellish account of wasted days and wasted nights in Brownsville, which Martinez depicts as a dirt-poor land of extreme machismo, where growing up means having to contend with a drug-smuggling father and the hijinks of two sisters who bleach their brown hair blond and call themselves “Mimi” in a fruitless effort to pass as Caucasian. Full Story

  • Coming of Age in Brownsville

    It has always taken a lot of guts to write unfavorably about one’s family. Domingo Martinez, a Seattle-based writer who grew up in Brownsville, [...] Full Story

  • Coming of Age in Brownsville

    It has always taken a lot of guts to write unfavorably about one’s family. Domingo Martinez, a Seattle-based writer who grew up in Brownsville, [...] Full Story

  • Cine Las America’s Maturing Voice

    At 15, Cine Las Americas, the international film festival featuring titles from Mexico and Latin America, is coming of age. “It takes time to [...] Full Story

  • Sandra Cisneros to Leave Texas

    Celebrated author and benefactor of Latino/Latina writers, Sandra Cisneros plans to leave Texas. Cisneros, who lives in San Antonio, says she wants to spend [...] Full Story