Harvard Radcliffe Fellow 2024-2025, https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/people/yxta-maya-murray Yxta Maya Murray (born 1970) is an American Latina novelist and professor at Loyola Marymount School of Law.
[4] Locas - "Murray perfectly captures the patois and fury of the Mexican women..." and "The reader equipped with a Spanish-English dictionary has the best chance to grasp all the nuances of this convincing, under-the-skin work.
",[6] "Even if Locas is as persuasive and true-sounding as a smart documentary, Murray keeps her novel as tight as her main character keeps her mind..."[7] What it Takes to Get to Vegas - "The suffering hero, the bullet in the gut, come to think of it, this does sound like The Natural, doesn't it?
"[9] The Conquest - "Another ponderous and trendy novel from Murray..." and "A fluid and genuinely interesting story badly weighed down by leaden prose ... and a thoroughly hackneyed view of Latin American history.
"[16] The World Doesn't Work That Way, but It Could (U Nevada Press, 2020), called a "force of nature" by Story Circle Network, https://www.storycircle.org/book_review/the-world-doesnt-work-that-way-but-it-could/ God Went Like That (Curbstone/Northwestern 2023): PW: "Murray shines with this ambitious project."