A NIGHT OF SCREAMS: LATINO HORROR STORIES

12:00 pm - 12:45 pm
| Location of Session: Festival Room
Adult Sessions

Start of Signing: 1:00 pm
| Signing Location: Festival Marketplace

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About the Event

Creepy creatures, ghosts, zombies, and shadow selves roam the pages in A Night of Screams: Latino Horror Stories. There’s blood, gore, mystery, suspense, and fresh takes on Latin American lore. Join editor Richard Z. Santos and contributors Rubén Degollado and Leticia Urieta in conversation as they talk about this riveting collection.

About the Authors

Photo Credit: Sarai Mendoza

Rubén Degollado

Rubén Degollado’s work has appeared or has been featured in Texas Highways, Literary Hub, CRAFT, The Common, The Rumpus, Image Journal, and elsewhere. His first novel Throw won the Texas Institute of Letters Best Young Adult book for 2020. His debut literary novel The Family Izquierdo was a New York Times Editors’ Choice and longlisted for the PEN/Faulkner and Mark Twain American Voice in Literature awards. Rubén lives and writes along the southern border in the Río Grande Valley of Texas. He is a contributor to A Night of Screams: Latino Horror Stories.

Photo Credit: Courtesy of Leticia Urieta

Leticia Urieta

Leticia Urieta is a Tejana writer from Austin, TX. She is a teaching artist in the greater Austin community and the Program Director of Austin Bat Cave, a literary community serving students in the Austin area, as well as the co-director of Barrio Writers Austin and Pflugerville, a free creative writing program for youth. Leticia is also a freelance writer. She is a graduate of Agnes Scott College and holds an MFA in Fiction writing from Texas State University. Her hybrid collection, Las Criaturas, was a finalist for the Sergio Troncoso Award for Best First Book of Fiction 2022 from the Texas Institute of Letters, and is out now from FlowerSong Press. She is a contributor to A Night of Screams: Latino Horror Stories.

Moderator

Richard Z. Santos

Richard Z. Santos’s debut novel, Trust Me, was a finalist for the Writers’ League of Texas Book Awards and was named one of the best debuts of the year by CrimeReads. He is the Executive Director of Austin Bat Cave, an organization that provides creative writing workshops to students in under-resourced areas. He is a former Board Member of the National Book Critics Circle and has judged contests for the Kirkus Prize, the National Endowment for the Arts, and many more. Recent work can be found in Austin Noir, Lone Stars Rising, Texas Monthly, CrimeReads, and more. In a previous career, he taught high school English and Social Studies and before that he worked for some of the nation’s top political campaigns, consulting firms, and labor unions. He is the editor of the collection A Night of Screams: Latino Horror Stories.