A tree that won’t be rooted out A huizache is a wild acacia native to Mexico. Ranchers have spent generations trying to clear it from the land, and every year it comes back covered in gold flowers. Founding editor Dagoberto Gilb named the magazine after it for that reason. Our writers work the same way: they refuse to be categorized, labeled, or pushed aside.

Now rooted in El Paso Huizache started in Texas, moved to California, and is now back in Texas, published in El Paso by Huizache Media Inc., a nonprofit. We brought one of the country’s major Latinx literary magazines here because this border region has long produced great writing.

Issue #13: Las ciudades hermanas Our new issue has more than sixty writers and artists from across the country. At its center is Las ciudades hermanas, a section devoted to El Paso and Ciudad Juárez and curated by Gabriel Dozal. It includes poetry, fiction, and essays by Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Sheryl Luna, and a new generation of borderland writers. The cover is Francisco Delgado’s painting Natalicio de La Lucha. The issue also has a full-color art insert featuring Gaspar Enriquez, Marianna Olague, and Los Dos, and an interview with Dagoberto Gilb.

Where your gift goes Your donation helps us print Issue #13, including the full-color art insert, and produce a stand-alone booklet of the El Paso section. We will share that booklet at community events so local readers can find their city in its pages. Every dollar raised on Giving Day stays in the Paso del Norte region.

Step into the ring for borderland literature. Your gift tells our writers that El Paso is reading.