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BOOKS
The story of María Cordova, who fought to keep her downtown Tucson home, only to be erased from its history after the property was taken through eminent domain and preserved as a museum.
• 2026 Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY), Gold Medal, West-Mountain Non-Fiction
• 2026 International Latino Book Awards Finalist, Best History Book
• 2026 Southwest Books of the Year, Top Pick in History, Pima County Public Library
Reviews & Press:
Journal of Arizona History — review forthcoming
Tucson Spotlight
Tucson Sentinel
AZ Luminaria
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.Life as an activist and electrician offers a window into a changing Los Angeles and a community largely missing from the city's history.
• 2024 International Latino Book Awards, Silver Medal, Dolores Huerta Best Cultural & Community Themed Book
• L.A. Taco’s 37 Best Books About Los Angeles Culture (and Beyond), 2023
Reviews & Press:
Pacific Historical Review
Los Angeles Review of Books
Los Angeles Times
A coming-of-age memoir about family, place, and the freeway that transformed a working-class Mexican American neighborhood in Tucson.
• 2021 Southwest Book of the Year, Pima County Public Library
Reviews & Press:
Los Angeles Review of Books
Journal of Arizona History
Arizona Daily Star
The destruction of one of Tucson's oldest and most historic areas and the Mexican American downtown that generations of Tucsonenses called la calle.
• 2012 Southwest Book Award, Border Regional Library Association
Selected columns by longtime Tucson journalist Alva B. Torres documenting Mexican American community life, politics, and culture in Southern Arizona.
• 2022 International Latino Book Awards, Honorable Mention, Victor Villaseñor Best Latino Focused Nonfiction Book
• 2022 New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards Finalist, History–Arizona
Reviews & Press:
Arizona Spotlight (AZPM)
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