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Yuri Herrera is a Mexican author and political scientist. He has written several short novels, four of which have been translated into English: A Silent Fury: The El Bordo Mine Fire (El incendio de la mina El Bordo), Transmigration of Bodies (Las transmigración de los Cuerpos), Signs Preceding the End of the World (Señales que precederán al fin del mundo) and Kingdom Cons (Trabajos del Reino). His debut novel, Kingdom Cons, won the 2003 Premio Binacional de Novela/Border of Words. Born in Actopan, Mexico, in 1970, he is currently teaching at Tulane University in New Orleans.