Gabriel M. Schivone

Agent: Peter Ryan

As a writer, Gabriel M. Schivone’s work has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Electric Literature, The Guardian, The Nation, Huffington Post, McClatchy Newspapers, Break the Wall Theatre Project, Electronic Intifada, and elsewhere.

His forthcoming nonfiction book, Making the New “Illegal”: How Decades of US Involvement in Central America Triggered the Modern Wave of Immigration, has a forward written by linguist and social critic Noam Chomsky. He's currently a Literary Fellow in the Agnese Nelms Haury program at the University of Arizona, awarded to produce Into the Sun, a sci-fi “climate fantasy” graphic novel about borders and climate change. 

Schivone's mother was born in Navajoa, Sonora (Mexico) and migrated as a child with his nana (grandmother) to Southern Arizona where he was eventually born in the gorgeous Sonoran desert city of Tucson. Add to that a father born in Italy, Schivone grew up with borders and colonization in his blood, home, and public life.

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