Luis Alberto Urrea is a prolific and award-winning writer, a master storyteller who uses his dual-culture life experiences to explore greater themes of love, loss and triumph. In all his work, Luis encourages empathy and compassion for our shared humanity.

The  author of 17 books, he has published extensively in various genres and  has received many prestigious awards. The Devil’s Highway, his  non-fiction account of a group of Mexican immigrants lost in the Arizona  desert, won the Lannan Literary Award and was a finalist for the  Pulitzer Prize. His highly acclaimed historical novels, The  Hummingbird’s Daughter and Queen of America together tell the epic story  of Teresita Urrea, a great aunt who was a healer and Mexican folk hero.  Urrea is also the author of Into the Beautiful North, The House of Broken Angels, and his latest, Good Night, Irene, with its affecting and  uplifting portrait of friendship and valor in harrowing circumstances, it powerfully demonstrates Urrea’s gifts as a storyteller.

Throughout his career, Urrea has established himself as a passionate and prolific voice urging readers to break down borders instead of putting up walls.

An Evening with Luis Alberto Urrea