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Ralph M. Flores was born in 1940 in L.A., grew up in Arizona and, after serving in the military and teaching in Guam, he lived most of his life in New Mexico. While teaching English, Chicano Studies, Cultural Studies, and Science Fiction at Central New Mexico Community College and living with his family in Tomé, he wrote several books, one published and some left behind in manuscript when he died in 2017 but since published by his widow Geri Rhodes. The Horse in the Kitchen: Stories of a Mexican-American Family, a fictionalized version of his family's life in Sonora Mexico and the U.S., was originally published by UNM Press in 2004 and won the American Book Award the next year. Ralph would be surprised to see his other books now in print: Tales from La Perla: A Misspent Hippie Youth (2018), The Illustrated Fractured Fables (2020), a reprint of Horse in the Kitchen (2019) and its Spanish translation El caballo en la cocina: Las historias de una familia mexicana-americana (2020) translated by Patricia Padilla and Andrea Padilla (El caballo available in hardcover, paperback, and Kindle). Now in January 2022, Doing Nothing: Poems before the Pandemic is live on Amazon. Ralph said more than once that he thought of himself as a member of la raza cósmica. It's hard to classify his work which in addition to his Mexican-American family history depicts his life as a freak in La Joya, NM and Silver City in the 1970s, his wry humor in his fables, and his reflections as a poet, sometimes autobiographical and mythical, sometimes literary, but always readable. GMR.
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