This site, maintained by the Academy of American Poets "…to support American poets at all stages of their careers and to foster the appreciation of American poetry…" provides invaluable information on Rios. Here you can find a brief biography of the writer, along with links to other Alberto Rios exhibits on Web.

Arizona State University: Discovering the Alphabet of Life
http://researchmag.asu.edu/articles/alphabet.html

In this revealing and succinct interview by Sheilah Britton of the online "ASU Research" ("…a magazine of scholarship and creative activity at Arizona State University"), Rios discusses (amusingly) his childhood and his alphabet of words and images.

Arizona State University Creative Writing Program Faculty: Alberto Rios
http://www.asu.edu/clas/english/creativewriting/faculty/currentfaculty/faculty/rios/

Here you will find contact information for Rios, a longtime regents professor of English at Arizona State University. E-mail him with questions or praise about his writing.

BIOGRAPHY
Alberto Rios (b. 1952) was born in Nogales, Arizona on the Mexican border, the son of a Guatemalan father and an English mother. He received a B.A. from the University of Arizona, briefly attended the law school, and eventually earned an M.F.A. in creative writing in 1979. His first poetry chapbook Elk Heads on the Wall was published in 1979. He published two more poetry collections and then the short-story collection The Iguana Killer: Twelve Stories of the Heart in 1984 which won the Western States Book Award. Rios has published eight books of poetry and fiction and the memoir Capriatada: A Nogales Memoir (1999). He was won many awards including the Walt Whitman award from the National Academy of American Poets (1981) and the Pushcart Prize for fiction (1986). Since 1982 he has been a professor of English at Arizona State University.