Robert Joe Stout is a prize-winning journalist, novelist and poet who has written extensively about Mexico, human rights and baseball. His most recent books include Hidden Dangers, Where Gringos Don't Belong, Why Immigrants Come to America, Running Out the Hurt and A Perfect Throw. Essays, fiction and poetry have appeared in such diverse publications as The Monthly Review, Prick of the Spindle and Smoke.

A BIT MORE ABOUT BOB STOUT

As a highschool junior varsity baseball pitcher he threw a no-hitter but lost the game 11-0. (Nine walks, three wild pitches, two hit batsmen, six fielders errors, two of them his.)

As an Air Force enlisted man he received commendations as a bomb wing historian but never received a good conduct medal.

During his undergraduate days at Mexico City College he edited the award-winning The Collegian newspaper, received the gold key honoring the year’s outstanding graduating senior and lost numerous arm-wrestling contests in a bar called The Baliliaka.

His journalistic career began as an editor with Western Publication in Austin, Texas, his literary career with a poem in The Beloit Poetry Journal and shortstories in Four Quarters and The Georgia Review.

Journalistic adventures were interrupted by a year in Europe, writing an unpublished novel in New Orleans, two marriages and the births of two sons and three daughters, six years as a business and government accountant, passionate participation in Rotisserie baseball leagues and community, fern bar and university appearances as an actor, director and gofer.