Gregory Stephens is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez. He was born in Ada, Oklahoma, went to high school in Abilene, Texas, and was an award-winning journalist in Laredo and an award-winning songwriter in Austin during the 1980s. His book, Three Birds Sing a New Song: A Puerto Rican Trilogy about Dystopia, Precarity, and Resistance, was published by Intermezzo in 2019.
My grandad’s father John Speed Stephens Jr. was the son of an Irish immigrant, and as a fourteen-year-old, he became the pioneer who planted the Stephens in Indian... Read more.
