Rudy Ruiz

Award-winning author Rudy Ruiz was selected as #1 among the Top Ten "New" Latino Authors to Watch & Read in 2015. Ruiz was born in Texas, the son and grandson of Mexican immigrants. He grew up in a bilingual, bicultural setting along both sides of the border. He earned his Bachelor's and Master's degrees at Harvard, where his studies included literature and creative writing. Ruiz's fiction debut, "Seven for the Revolution," won four International Latino Book Awards. In 2017, he was awarded the Gulf Coast Prize in Fiction. His stories have appeared in literary journals including Gulf Coast, The Ninth Letter, BorderSenses, New Texas, and The Notre Dame Review. Ruiz's novel, "The Resurrection of Fulgencio Ramirez," will be released in 2020 by Blackstone Publishing. He currently resides in San Antonio with his wife and children.