Rudy Ruiz

Rudy Ruiz is an award-winning author of literary fiction. A native of the US-Mexico border, Ruiz writes from the heart about Latino culture, the bilingual/bicultural experience, immigration and acculturation issues. His fiction debut, Seven for the Revolution, won four International Latino Book Awards, including First Place for Best Popular Fiction and The Mariposa Award for Best First Book. He also received the Gulf Coast Prize in Fiction in 2017. His short stories have appeared in Notre Dame Review, The Ninth Letter, Gulf Coast and New Texas. His novel, The Resurrection of Fulgencio Ramirez, was released in 2020 by Blackstone Publishing and won two Gold Medals at the International Latino Book Awards, including the Rudolfo Anaya Best Latino-Focused Fiction Book and Best Audio Book. His most recent novel, Valley of Shadows, was released by Blackstone in September 2022. It was named one of the Top Horror Novels of 2022 by LitHub's CrimeReads and was selected by the Texas Institute of Letters as winner of the Jesse H. Jones Award for Best Work of Fiction. Rudy Ruiz earned his Bachelor's and Master's degrees at Harvard.