Los Muertos: Day of the Dead Fiction

Stories about the Day of the Dead tradition and the cultural understanding of death

Yvette D. Benavides is a professor of English and creative writing at Our Lady of the Lake University and an editor-at-large with Trinity University Press. She is an associate editor of TPR News and TPR Noticias and the host of the Book Public podcast, as well as a founding member of the advisory council of the San Antonio Book Festival. She is the coauthor of San Antonio 365: On This Day in History, the coeditor of Los Muertos: Day of the Dead Fiction, and her essays and stories have been published widely. She lives in San Antonio, Texas.