Luis Humberto Crosthwaite

Luis Humberto Crosthwaite
Born	1962 (age 61–62) Tijuana, Mexico
Occupation	Writer, editor, and journalist

Luis Humberto Crosthwaite (born 1962 in Tijuana) is a writer, editor, and journalist whose work has appeared in a variety of international venues. His fiction works have garnered critical attention for his ability to express the complexities of living on the US/Mexico border region.

Crosthwaite spent most of his life in Tijuana before moving to San Diego, where he worked the The San Diego Union-Tribune newspaper as columnist and editor.

Currently, Crosthwaite lives in Tijuana.

Publications

English

As author

• The Moon Will Forever be a Distant Love, translated by Debbie Nathan and Willivaldo Delgadillo, from La luna siempre será un dificíl amor (novel, 1997)
• Out of their Minds (2013)

As editor

• Puro Border: Dispatches, Snapshots, & Graffiti from La Frontera (anthology, 2003)

As translator

• Once Around the Block / Una Vuelta a la Manzana, written and illustrated by José Lozano (2009)
• Little Chanclas, written and illustrated by José Lozano (2015)
• Birdie's Beauty Parlor / El Salon de Belleza de Birdie, written by Lee Merrill Byrd and illustrated by Francisco Degado (2020)
• Maximilian and the Curse of the Fallen Angel, written and illustrated by Xavier Garza (2020)
• Still Dreaming/Seguimos soñando written by Claudia Guadalupe Martinez and illustrated by Magdalena Mora (2022)

Spanish

• Marcela y el rey al fin juntos (short stories, 1988)
• Mujeres con traje de baño caminan solitarias por las playas de su llanto (short stories, 1990)
• El gran preténder (novella, 1990)
• No quiero escribir no quiero (short stories, 1993)
• Lo que estará en mi corazón (non-fiction, 1994)
• La luna siempre será un amor difícil (novel, 1994)
• Estrella de la calle sexta (two novellas and a short story), 2000)
• Idos de la mente - la increíble y (a veces) triste historia de Ramón y Cornelio (novel, 2001)
• Instrucciones para cruzar la frontera (short stories, 2002)
• Aparta de mí este cáliz (novel, 2009)
• Idos de la mente - la increíble y (a veces) triste historia de Ramón y Cornelio (revised edition, 2010)
• Tijuana: crimen y olvido (novel, 2010)
• Instrucciones para cruzar la frontera (revised edition, 2011)