Patrick Fontes grew up in Fresno, 4th generation Chicano, working class, where he currently lives and teaches. He received a PhD in American History from Stanford University, with an emphasis on Immigration History and the Mexican American experience.Fontes' poetry has appeared in multiple journals, including La Bloga, The Mas Tequila Review, and The Acentos Review. He is an also an avid and published photographer.Floricanto Press published his first novel “Maria’s Purgatorio,” in 2017. Bone & Ink Press published Patrick's first poetry collection in 2019, titled “Mountains of Rust.”Currently, Patrick is a professor of US History at Clovis Community College and also teaches Chicano Studies at Fresno State University.Patrick was born and raised in Fresno, CA. The sinews, grime, harsh environment and Fresno’s working-class ethos have made me the person he is today.Growing up in Fresno’s Tower District in the 1970s-1980s gifted him an appreciation for the marginalized and those living on the periphery of society’s norms.Punk Rock, a love for cultural undergrounds, and a passionate drive to uncover voices, lives and faces forgotten or ignored by our modern culture, have all contributed to his literary approach and style. Patrick seeks to reveal the hidden, the shadows, the forgotten.Read more about this authorRead less about this author