John Gibler lives and writes in Mexico. He is the author of Mexico Unconquered: Chronicles of Power and Revolt (City Lights, 2009), To Die in Mexico: Dispatches From Inside the Drug War (City Lights, 2011), I Couldn't Even Imagine That They Would Kill Us: An Oral History of the Attacks Against the Students of Ayotzinapa (City Lights, 2017), Torn from the World: A Guerrilla's Escape from a Secret Prison in Mexico (City Lights, 2018) and La tierra de Vallejo (Pepitas de calabaza, 2022).