Maceo Montoya

About The Author

Maceo Montoya is an assistant professor in the Department of Chicano Studies at the University of California, Davis, and an affiliated faculty member of Taller Arte del Nuevo Amenecer (TANA), a community-based art center in Woodland, California. He is also the author of The Scoundrel and the Optimist and The Deportation of Wopper Barraza: A Novel (UNM Press). His paintings, drawings, and prints have been widely exhibited and published.

Books by Maceo Montoya

You Must Fight Them

A Novella and Stories

By Maceo Montoya
In this collection we meet characters navigating the difficult situations that arise when different worlds collide.
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The Deportation of Wopper Barraza

A Novel

By Maceo Montoya
After Wopper Barraza's fourth drunk driving violation, the judge orders his deportation and now he has to move back to Michoacán. His story unfolds as life in a rural village takes him in new and unexpected directions. We know this story from the headlines, but up to now it has been unexplored li...
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