His first novel, Carry Me Like Water was a saga that brought together the Victorian novel and the Latin American tradition of magic realism and received much critical attention. Before completing his Ph.D., he moved back to the border and began teaching at the University of Texas at El Paso in the bilingual MFA program. program at Stanford and continued his studies for two more years. While at Stanford University under the guidance of Denise Levertov, he completed his first book of poems, Calendar of Dust, which won an American Book Award in 1992. A year later, he was awarded a Wallace E. He then spent a year at the University of Iowa as a PhD student in American Literature. In 1985, he returned to school, and studied English and Creative Writing at the University of Texas at El Paso where he earned an M.A. He was a priest for a few years in El Paso, Texas before leaving the order.
He studied Theology at the University of Louvain in Leuven, Belgium from 1977 to 1981. degree in Humanities and Philosophy in 1977. Thomas Seminary in Denver, Colorado where he received a B.A. He graduated from Las Cruces High School in 1972. He was born at Old Picacho, New Mexico, the fourth of seven children, and was raised on a small farm near Mesilla, New Mexico. Benjamin Alire Sáenz (born 16 August 1954) is an award-winning American poet, novelist and writer of children's books.
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