Juan Ochoa

Juan Ochoa is a writer who teaches writing at South Texas College in McAllen, Texas. He is also a licensed Mexican lawyer with an MFA in creative writing. His short stories and essays have appeared in numerous journals. His novel Pa'l Otro Lado, a family saga spanning five generations across the U.S.-Mexico border, was published by Madville Publishing in 2023. He is also the author of Mariguano, a novel about the drug trade on the Texas/Mexico border in the 1980s, and is writing the final volume of the El Penal trilogy.