Manuel Muñoz is a fiction writer who has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts, two O. Henry Awards, and a Whiting Writer's Award. He is also a faculty member at the respected University of Arizona Creative Writing program. We talk about growing up in a home where books were a luxury, the writing process and the raw realities of it, the awareness of mortality and how that changes one's life, and so much more...