Yxta Maya Murray

Yxta Maya Murray is a novelist, art critic, playwright, and law professor. The author of nine books, her most recent include the story collection, The World Doesn’t Work That Way, but It Could (University of Nevada Press, 2020), which was named a 2020 Best Book by BuzzFeed News. She also recently published the novel, Art Is Everything (TriQuarterly Press, 2021). The winner of a Whiting Award and an Art Writer's Grant, she has been named a fellow at the Huntington Library in Pasadena, California.