The University of Arizona Press
Date: Thursday, May 1, 2025
Time: 4:30 p.m., PDT
Where: Shields Library, 205, 100 NW Quad, University of California, Davis, CA
Tim Z. Hernandez will talk about his book They Call You Back: A Lost History, A Search, A Memoir, for the 2024-25 Creative Writing Series at the Shields Library at UC Davis. He will also take time to answer questions from the audience about his work. Hernandez is an award-winning author, research scholar, and performer. His books include fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, and he is the recipient of numerous awards, including the American Book Award. His work has been featured in international media, and in 2018 he was recognized by the California Senate for his work locating the victims of the 1948 plane wreck at Los Gatos. Hernandez is an associate professor in the University of Texas at El Paso’s Bilingual Creative Writing program.
This event will be available in-person and livestreamed via Zoom. It is free and open to the public.
About the book:
A haunting, an obsession, a calling: Tim Z. Hernandez has been searching for people his whole life. Now, in this highly anticipated memoir, he takes us along on an investigative odyssey through personal and collective history to uncover the surprising conjunctions that bind our stories together.
In this riveting new work, Hernandez continues his search for the plane crash victims while also turning the lens on himself and his ancestral past, revealing the tumultuous and deeply intimate experiences that have fueled his investigations—a lifelong journey haunted by memory, addiction, generational trauma, and the spirit world.
