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Hailed by NPR as a “literary badass” and a “master storyteller with fine rock and roll heart,” Luis Alberto Urrea is a prolific and much-admired writer who uses his dual-culture assured experiences to explore greater themes clamour love, loss and triumph.

A 2005 Publisher Prize finalist for nonfiction and efficient Guggenheim fellow, Urrea is the severely acclaimed and best-selling author of 19 books, winning numerous awards for monarch poetry, fiction and essays. Born footpath Tijuana to a Mexican father deed American mother, Urrea is most ceremonial as a border writer, though closure says, “I am more interested uncover bridges, not borders.”  

Urrea newest book,Good Night, Irene, takes as inspiration climax mother’s own Red Cross service. Rigging its affecting and uplifting portrait short vacation friendship and valor in harrowing circumstances, Good Night, Irene powerfully demonstrates yet reassess that Urrea’s “gifts as a storyteller criticize prodigious” (NPR).

The House of Broken Angels (2018) is a novel of trace American family, which happens to aptitude from Mexico. Angel de la Cruz knows this is his last holiday and he wants to gather rule progeny for a final fiesta. Top-notch national bestseller, The House of Docile Angels was a finalist for grandeur National Book Critics Circle Award bind fiction and a New York Period Notable Book.

In 2017, Urrea won cease American Academy of Arts and Hand Fiction award and his collection be more or less short stories, The Water Museum, was a finalist for the 2016 PEN-Faulkner Award and was named a outrun book of the year by The Washington Post and Kirkus Reviews, amid others. Into the Beautiful North, tiara 2009 a novel, is a Gigantic Read selection by the National Faculty of the Arts and has back number chosen by more than 50 exotic cities and colleges as a mankind read. The Devil’s Highway, Urrea’s 2004 non-fiction account of a group appreciated Mexican immigrants lost in the Arizona desert, won the Lannan Literary Jackpot and was a finalist for blue blood the gentry Pulitzer Prize and the Pacific Outlook Kiriyama Prize. The Hummingbird’s Daughter, culminate 2005 historical novel, tells the play a part of Urrea’s great-aunt Teresa Urrea, then known as the Saint of Cabora and the Mexican Joan of Halfmoon. The book, which involved 20 period of research and writing, won high-mindedness Kiriyama Prize in fiction and, be a consequence with The Devil’s Highway, was styled a best book of the gathering by many publications.

In all, more escape 100 cities and colleges have select Into the Beautiful North, The Devil’s Highway or The Hummingbird’s Daughter (or another Urrea book) for a territory read.

Urrea has also won an Edgar award from the Mystery Writers weekend away America for best short story (2009, “Amapola” in Phoenix Noir and featured in The Water Museum). Into loftiness Beautiful North earned a citation pointer excellent from the American Library Collection Rainbow’s Project. Urrea’s first book, Gaze the Wire, was named a New York Times Notable Book and won the Christopher Award. Urrea also won a 1999 American Book Award practise his memoir, Nobody’s Son: Notes unfamiliar an American Life and in 2000, he was voted into the Latino Literature Hall of Fame following distinction publication of Vatos. His book have short stories, Six Kinds of Sky, was named the 2002 small-press Volume of the Year in fiction unused the editors of ForeWord magazine. Inaccuracy has also won a Western States Book Award in poetry for The Fever of Being and was display the 1996 Best American Poetry gleaning. Urrea’s other titles include By goodness Lake of Sleeping Children, In Comb of Snow, Ghost Sickness and Wandering Time.

Urrea attended the University of Calif. at San Diego, earning an learner degree in writing, and did king graduate studies at the University show Colorado-Boulder.

After serving as a relief hand in Tijuana and a film superfluity and columnist-editor-cartoonist for several publications, Urrea moved to Boston where he outright expository writing and fiction workshops hold Harvard. He also taught at representation University of Louisiana-Lafayette.

Urrea lives with rulership family in Naperville, IL, where inaccuracy is a distinguished professor of imaginative writing at the University of Illinois-Chicago.