Mario Acevedo

is the author of The Nymphos of Rocky Flats in the national bestselling Felix Gomez detective-vampire series, the YA humor thriller, University of Doom; the cartoon memoir Cats in Quarantine, and co-authored the Western novel, Luther, Wyoming. His work has won an International Latino Book Award, a Colorado Book Award, and has appeared in numerous anthologies to include
Midnight Roost; Denver Noir; ¡El Porvenir, Ya!; and Shadow Atlas. Mario was a faculty member in the Regis University Mile-High MFA program and Lighthouse Writers Workshops and was the editor of Ramas y Raíces: the Best of CALMA, an anthology from the Colorado Alliance of Latino Mentors and Authors, which won 2025 International Latino Book Award.

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