John Manuel Arias is the author of the National Bestseller Where There Was Fire, a finalist for the PEN Open Book Award and the Barnes & Noble Discover Prize. A CantoMundo Fellow and alumnus of the Tin House Summer Workshop, his work has been published in Harper’s Bazaar, The Kenyon Review, Electric Literature, and others. He has lived in Washington, DC, Brooklyn, New York and San José, Costa Rica with his grandmother and four ghosts.