Stephanie Elizondo Griest is the author of Around the Bloc: My Life in Moscow, Beijing, and Havana and Mexican Enough: My Life Between the Borderlines. She splits her time between Iowa City and Corpus Christi. Visit her website at mexicanenough.com.

• November/December 2011: The Michelangelo of New Mexico
  Frederico Vigil, Frescoist of Latino History, Needs a New Wall.