Luis Urrea
Luis Urrea uses his dual-culture heritage to explore themes of love, loss and triumph.
Luis Alberto Urrea, a 2005 Pulitzer Prize finalist for nonfiction, and member of the Latino Literature Hall of Fame, is the author of 11 books, and uses his dual-culture life experiences to explore greater themes of love, loss and triumph. The Devil's Highway won the 2004 Lannan Literary Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Urrea's most recent book is The Hummingbird's Daughter (2005). Other award-winning titles include his memoir, Nobody's Son: Notes from an American Life, and in poetry, The Fever of Being. Urrea earned his graduate degree at the University of Colorado-Boulder. After serving as a relief worker in Tijuana and a film extra and columnist-editor-cartoonist, Urrea taught expository writing and fiction workshops at Harvard, Massachusetts Bay Community College and the University of Colorado. He was the writer in residence at the University of Louisiana-Lafayette.