Yxta Murray

Yxta is a Latinx novelist, art critic, playwright, and law professor at Loyola Marymount University. The author of nine books, her most recent are the forthcoming story collection, The World Doesn’t Work That Way, but It Could, and the novel, Art Is Everything. She has won a Whiting Award, an Art Writer’s Grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation for creative capital, and has been named a fellow at the Huntington Library. In 2019, she published a play about the Christine Blasey Ford hearings. At the Mesa Refuge, she worked on a novel about real-life radionuclide contamination in Simi Valley, CA.