“Harvest of Blood” is an excerpt from a historical novel in progress by Jesús Mena for the Viva Macondo digital chapbook.
Author Archives: Jesús Mena
Jesús Mena is the son of undocumented Mexican immigrants from the Rio Grande Valley. He was a prize-winner in the UC-Irvine Chicano Literary Contest. His stories won first prize in the San Miguel de Allende Writers' Conference. He served as managing editor of the anthology, "201:Homenaje a la Ciudad de Los Angeles." His columns and commentaries have been published in the Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Oakland Tribune, Hispanic Link, and aired on NPR's All Things Considered. His oral history of pioneer immigrant activist Bert Corona is featured in Latinx Los Angeles: Nonfiction Dispatches from a Decolonial Rebellion. Mena worked as a journalist for the Brownsville Herald, Orange County Register and Oakland Tribune and was director of communications at UC-Berkeley and the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government.
