David Martin Davies is a veteran journalist with more than thirty years’ experience covering Texas, the border, and Mexico. He hosts Texas Public Radio’s The Source and Texas Matters. His reporting has been featured on National Public Radio, American Public Media’s Marketplace, and the BBC, and he has written for the San Antonio Express-News, the Texas Observer, and other publications. In 2019 Davies was honored with a National Edward R. Murrow Award and a First Amendment Award by the Fort Worth Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.
Yvette D. Benavides is a professor of English and creative writing at Our Lady of the Lake University and an editor-at-large with Trinity University Press. She is an associate editor of TPR News and TPR Noticias and the host of the Book Public podcast, as well as a founding member of the advisory council of the San Antonio Book Festival. She is the coauthor of San Antonio 365: On This Day in History, the coeditor of Los Muertos: Day of the Dead Fiction, and her essays and stories have been published widely. She lives in San Antonio, Texas.