Yvette Benavides – Lake Weekly

Benavides awarded prestigious fellowship from University of Texas

Yvette Benevides, Professor of English, Mass Communication, and Drama, has been awarded the Ralph A. Johnston Memorial Fellowship from the University of Texas at Austin and will be the 2024 Dobie Paisano fellow in residency from September through December.

The Dobie Paisano is an internationally known and recognized writer-in-residence award, whereby the awardee resides and writes at J. Frank Dobie’s ranch outside of Austin for four months.

The Dobie Paisano Fellowship Program is a major award, and writers from all over the world have been recipients in its 50 years of existence.

To take the residence this fall, Professor Benavides will be on a leave of absence from the university for the fall 2024 semester.

Professor Benavides’ essay published in ‘Oh Reader’ magazine

Yvette Benavides, MFA, Professor of English, wrote an essay, “Short Stories Say the Unsayable,” that was published in the latest issue of “Oh Reader” magazine.

The essay is about how short stories can give voice to the mysteries of the human experience that people find difficult to articulate.

The essay discusses “Misery” by Anton Chekhov, “Pile of Clothes” by Peter Orner, and “Chango” by Oscar Casares.

Professor Benavides featured in Texas Public Radio’s ‘Fronteras’

English Professor Yvette Benavides was featured in the most recent episode of Texas Public Radio’s Fronteras. She was interviewed about her work as editor-at-large of Tinta Books, an imprint of Trinity University Press.

You can listen to her interview here, which tells how Tinta Books uplifts Mexico and Mexican American history and culture.

Professor Benavides continues her work as host and producer of Book Public, a podcast from Texas Public Radio. Recent summertime episodes in the last two months include interviews with acclaimed authors Nicole Chung, Luis Alberto Urrea, Karin Lin Greenberg, and Isabel Allende. Book Public | TPR

Additionally, she continues her work as contributing editor on the editorial board of Story magazine. Story – Publisher of literary fiction and nonfiction (storymagazine.org)

One-day Literature and Arts Festival set for Saturday

Thirty-seven writers, poets and artists from around the U.S. will showcase their creative works during a one-day Literature and Arts Festival in Main Building, Room 311 on Saturday.

Presented by VersoFrontero, the festival will include the works of multiple faculty, including Octavio Quintanilla, PhD, Associate Professor of English; Yvette Benavides, MFA, Professor of English; Antoinette Winstead, MFA, Professor of Drama and Mass Communication; and Wallis Sanborn III, PhD, Associate Professor of English.

Professor Benavides reports story on migrant resource center for National Public Radio

Yvette Benavides, OLLU professor of English, reported a story for National Public Radio about the Migrant Resource Center in San Antonio which was tied to recent stories about migrants who were flown to Martha’s Vineyard through efforts organized by the Florida governor.

Professor Benavides awarded a grant from prestigious school of journalism

Yvette Benavides, Professor of English, and her husband, Texas Public Radio journalist David Martin Davies, have been awarded a grant from the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism.

Benavides and Davies will produce a radio documentary in English and Spanish that explores health care barriers for Hispanic children with Type 2 diabetes in San Antonio and the long-term implications for these children.

Yvette Benavides wins first place in ‘How I Found You’ writing contest

Yvette Benavides, associate professor of English, won first place in the “How I Found You” Valentine’s Day writing contest sponsored by Gemini Ink and the Rivard Report. Her short, nonfiction story, “Linguistics 101, Finding My Soul in Español,” tells the story of how she fell in love with linguistics. Read her winning story here.