Luis Alberto Urrea is a poet, novelist, and essayist. He is the author of Salt Lake City Reads Together selection The Devil’s Highway, as well as Six Kinds of Sky, Foreword Magazine's Editor's choice for 2002 Book of the Year; The Hummingbird’s Daughter; and many other works. The Devil's Highway relates a tale of a group of 26 men who attempted to cross the Mexican border into the desert of southern Arizona in May 2001. They were forced to venture through the deadliest region of the continent, the Devil's Highway. Luis Urrea, who has won multiple awards for his writing about the border, tells the story of this modern, real-life adventure through a hellish no-man's-land where desperate dreams clash with the nearly invincible odds against survival. For more information, please go to http://www.twbooksmark.com/authors/68/2939/ (Amazon.com; Little, Brown & Co.). The Hummingbird’s Daughter is Urrea’s latest book, a long-awaited novel that is an epic, mystical drama of a young woman’s sudden sainthood in late 19th-century Mexico. Twenty years in the making, Urrea’s novel recounts the true story of his great-aunt Teresita. The Hummingbird’s Daughter is a “vast, hugely satisfying novel of love and loss, joy and pain. Two decades in the writing, this is the masterpiece that Luis Alberto Urrea has been building up to. Its publication will be a major literary event.” Urrea will present on Saturday, October 28.

Luis Alberto Urrea will appear on Saturday, Oct. 28, 5 pm, in the Salt Lake City Main Library, Auditorium. Luis will also participate in the “A Collage of Human Rights Experiences: A Panel Discussion” on Saturday, Oct. 28, 12:30 pm, in the Salt Lake City Main Library, Conference Room A/B.