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Valeria Luiselli was born in Mexico City and grew up in South Korea, South Africa and India. An acclaimed writer of both fiction and nonfiction, she is the author of the essay collection Sidewalks; the novels Faces in the Crowd and The Story of My Teeth; and Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions. She is the winner of two Los Angeles Times Book Prizes and an American Book Award, and has twice been nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Kirkus Prize. She has been a National Book Foundation "5 Under 35" honoree and the recipient of a Bearing Witness Fellowship from the Art for Justice Fund. Her work has appeared in the New York Times and McSweeney's, among other publications, and has been translated into more than twenty languages. She lives in New York City. Christina MacSweeney is an award-winning translator of Latin American literature. She has worked with authors such as Valeria Luiselli, Daniel Saldaña París, Verónica Gerber Bicecci, Julián Herbert and Jazmina Barrera. She has also contributed to anthologies of Latin American literature and published articles and interviews on a wide variety of platforms. |
