Poet and novelist Benjamin Alire Sáenz has died at the age of 71. Read more about his career from a profile from 2013 here: https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/the-passion-of-benjamin-saenz/
The Passion of Benjamin SáenzThe messy, lonely, and visionary life of the first Texas writer—and the first Latino—to win the vaunted PEN/Faulkner Award.www.texasmonthly.com