Rudy Ruiz is the author of "The Resurrection of Fulgencio Ramirez" and "Valley of Shadows". He is a winner of the Jesse H. Jones Award for Best Book of Fiction, the Gulf Coast Prize in Fiction, and multiple International Latino Book Awards. A bilingual native of the US–Mexico border, he earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees at Harvard University. Rudy lives and writes in Texas and New England with his wife and children. His new novel is "The Border Between Us."
Awards: Texas Institute of Letters Jesse H. Jones Award for Best Book of Fiction, Gulf Coast Prize in Fiction, multiple International Latino Book Awards, Longlisted for the 2025 Joyce Carol Oates Prize
Communities: Hispanic or Latinx
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