Daniel A. Olivas

Daniel A. Olivas is the author of 13 books including Waiting for Godínez: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts (University of New Mexico Press, 2025), Chicano Frankenstein (Forest Avenue Press, 2024), and My Chicano Heart: New and Collected Stories of Love and Other Transgressions (University of Nevada Press, 2024). Widely anthologized, he has written on literature for The New York Times, Los Angeles Review of Books, Los Angeles Times, Zocálo, Latino Book Review, Alta Journal, Literary Hub, Horror Homeroom, and The Rumpus. Olivas earned his degree in English literature from Stanford University, and law degree from UCLA. By day, Olivas is an attorney in Los Angeles.