Edward Stanton was born in Colorado, raised in California and has lived in Mexico, Argentina, Uruguay, Chile and Spain. He's author of fourteen books, some of which have been translated and published in Spanish, Arabic and Chinese. Road of Stars to Santiago, the story of his 500-mile walk on the ancient pilgrimage route to Compostela, was called one of the best books on the subject by The New York Times. On the dust cover of this work, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author James Michener said, “Edward Stanton recounts his adventures with stylish conviction.” His novel Wide as the Wind won the 2017 Next Generation Indie Book Award for Young Adult Fiction and three other international prizes. His travel memoir VIDAS: Deep in Mexico and Spain won the Grand Prize (Bronze) for Best Travel Writing, 15th Annual Solas Awards, and was a finalist for the 2021 Best Book Awards for Travel Literature. Stanton has also published short fiction, poems and translations in dozens of magazines and journals in the U.S. and abroad. He has been a Fulbright scholar and has lectured in many countries throughout the Americas and Europe. Stanton has received grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the U.S. Department of Education and the Spanish Ministry of Culture. He was named Distinguished Alumni Lecturer at UCLA. His second novel, Frail Blood—a political and erotic thriller set in the aftermath of Argentina's bloody civil war—was released on April 22, 2025, the 40th anniversary of the trial of the Juntas, at a time when "the forces of reaction, violence and oppression are rising in the New World and the Old" (Fernando Operé).
