Description

Benjamin Alire Saenz is an artist, poet, novelist, and author of children’s books. He has penned five books of poetry, four novels, four young adult novels, and four children’s books.

His most recent collection of short stories, Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club won the PEN Faulkner Award for Fiction and the Lambda Literary Award.

His latest Young Adult novel, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, was the winner of the Pura Belpre Award, The Stonewall Award, The Lambda Literary Award and is a Printz Honor Book.

He is a former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and is currently the chair of the Creative Writing Department at the University of Texas at El Paso.