Luis Alberto Urrea

Sponsored by the Obermann Center for Advanced Studies, The Englert Theatre, Diversity Focus, the Tuesday Agency, and the Perry A. and Helen J. Bond Fund for Interdisciplinary Interaction at the University of Iowa.

Award winning writer Luis Alberto Urrea is a prolific and acclaimed author of numerous books in a variety of genres, including poetry The Fever of Being, Ghost Sickness, Vatos - , short stories —Six Kinds of Sky—, memoir -Wandering Time; Western Notebooks, Nobody’s Son: Notes from an American Life— , non-fiction —Across the Wire: Life and Hard Times on the Mexican Border, By the Lake of Sleeping Children, The Devil’s Highway— and novel —In Search of Snow, the Hummingbird’s Daughter, Into the Beautiful North, Queen of America. In each work he explores the connections that exist between communities and nations. His most recent work, Queen of America, continues the story of his great aunt Teresa de Urrea, who was referred to as “The Saint of Cabora” and was expelled from Mexico along with her father. The book is a sequel to his earlier The Hummingbird’s Daughter that focused on Teresa’s life in Mexico.

Special guest Santiago Vaquera-Vasquez will open the event with a reading.

This event is part of the Intimate at the Englert Series — presented by Hands Jewelers, with additional support from Little Village. Intimate events feature both the audience and the performers onstage together: the connection between artist and audience will be direct and electrifying. Want to see what an Intimate event looks like? Be sure to check out these photos on our Facebook page.