Yuri Herrera was born in Actopan, Mexico, in 1970. She studied Political Science at UNAM and the Masters in Literary Creation at the University of Texas at El Paso. He holds a Doctorate in Hispanic Language and Literature from the University of California (Berkeley). He currently teaches at Tulane University (New Orleans)
He has published stories, articles, chronicles and essays in newspapers and magazines from the United States, Latin America and Spain: from El País to Reforma, from La Jornada to El Malpensante, from Free Letters to War and Peace, as well as numerous anthologies. He was editor and founder of the literary magazine the dog.
Her already extraordinary first novel, Works of the kingdom (Binational Prize of Novel Border of Words), was published by Periférica in 2008 and made Herrera one of the most promising young Latin American writers. A jury made up of one hundred people from the Spanish publishing world awarded her with the Other Voces Prize, Other Fields for the best novel in Spanish that year.
His second novel, Signs that will precede the end of the world (Peripheral, 2009), confirmed the promise and made him one of the Latin American authors with more worldwide projection, beginning to translate his books into many languages.