Hugo Moreno grew up in Juarez, Mexico, and has resided in Portland, Oregon since 2011. He
has been a faculty member at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, Western Ontario, Reed,
and Lewis & Clark College. His publications include Rethinking Philosophy with Borges,
Zambrano, Paz, and Plato (2023), and Donde se acaba el Norte (2020), his first novel, which he
translated into English as Where the North Ends (2025).
Aspiring writer Uriel Romero finds himself mysteriously trapped in the body of Diego, a
seventeenth-century Franciscan novice accused of heresy. Unsure whether he’s in a dream, a
coma, or another dimension, Uriel must navigate Diego’s fate: to be sent to New Mexico on a
perilous mission to convert the Apaches or else risk the flames of the Spanish Inquisition.