Dixie Salazar has published three books of poetry: "Hotel Fresno, Reincarnation of the Commonplace" (winner of the National Poetry Book Award), and "Blood Mysteries" (Arizona, 2003). She has also published a novel, " Limbo", along with numerous poems and short stories in more than fifty literary journals, including "The Missouri Review, Poetry International", and "Ploughshares". Currently she shows oil paintings and collage work at the Silva/Salazar studios in Fresno. She has taught at California State University, Fresno, as well as in the California prisons and the Fresno County jail.