California Southern: writing from the road, 1992-2025

California Southern: writing from the road, 1992-2025 is the first collection of prose and poetry by longtime Los Angeles-based poet and journalist Adolfo Guzman-Lopez.

Guzman-Lopez writes about the head-swirling images and sounds at the U.S.-Mexico border crossing in Tijuana, as well as growing up Mexican and undocumented in blue-collar National City, and surf-city Pacific Beach, as well as the Los Angeles he's spent nearly 25 years reporting on for the NPR affiliate in L.A.

Join Guzman-Lopez as his writing takes the reader along the neighborhoods of Southern California seen through the lens of an immigrant, father, husband, son, poet, journalist, Mexican, and American.