Daniel A. Olivas

Daniel A. Olivas is the author of 12 books including Chicano Frankenstein: A Novel (Forest Avenue Press, 2024), My Chicano Heart: New and Collected Stories of Love and Other Transgressions (University of Nevada Press, 2024), and How to Date a Flying Mexican (University of Nevada Press, 2022). He is also a playwright, editor, poet, and book critic. Widely anthologized, Olivas has written for many publications including the The New York Times, Los Angeles Review of Books, Los Angeles Times, Zocálo, Latino Book Review, Alta Journal, and The Guardian. He earned his degree in English literature from Stanford University, and law degree from UCLA. He is a senior attorney with the California Department of Justice’s Public Rights Division in Los Angeles.