Yvette Benavides, MFA, professor of English, is the recipient of the 2015 Department for Culture and Creative Development Award for Literary Arts grant, presented by the Artist Foundation of San Antonio.
The awards are designed to recognize artistic achievement, dedication to an artistic discipline and the potential for further professional development. Awards are made for a proposed project, which may already be in progress.
Professor Benavides will be using her award to work on her novel-in-stories, “Pobrecito Texas,” about life on the U.S./Mexico border.