Overview
B.A. in Political Science, University of Alabama-Huntsville (1991); M.A. in Hispanic Languages and Literatures, UC-Berkeley (1993); Ph.D. in Hispanic Languages and Literatures, UC-Berkeley (1997). Winner of the Bolivian National Book Award (2003), and the Juan Rulfo Short Story Award (1997). He has published Alcides Arguedas y la narrativa de la nación enferma (2003), and is the coeditor, with Gustavo Faverón, of the volume of critical essays Bolaño salvaje (2008), and, with Alberto Fuguet, of the anthology of short stories Se habla español: Voces latinas en U.S.A. (2000). He teaches Modern and Contemporary Spanish-American Literature, Andean Literature, Narrative and Mass Media, Speculative Fiction, and Creative Writing. He is the author of fourteen novels (among them Área protegida, La mirada de las plantas, Los días de la peste and Norte), and six books of short stories (among them La vía del futuro, Las visiones, and Billie Ruth). His work has been translated to twelve languages.
Publications
Recent Fiction
- Área Protegida. 2024. Spain and Mexico: Almadía. Bolivia: Nuevo Milenio.
- La mirada de las plantas. 2022. Mexico: Almadía. L’aspetto delle piante. Italy: Future Fiction, 2024.
- La vía del futuro. Madrid: Páginas de Espuma, 2021.
- Allá afuera hay monstruos. Santiago: Los Libros de la Mujer Rota, 2020.
- Los días de la peste. Barcelona: Malpaso, 2017. France: Gallimard, 2020. Serbia: Laguna, 2019.
- Desencuentros. Madrid: Páginas de Espuma, 2018.
- Trazado (anthology of stories). Santiago: Cuneta, 2016.
- Las visiones. Madrid: Páginas de espuma, 2016.
- Tiburón (anthology of stories). México: Almadía, 2016. Perú: Animal de invierno, 2016.
- Los otros (anthology of stories). Miami; Suburbano, 2015.
- Las dos ciudades (anthology of stories). Buenos Aires: Metalúcida, 2014.
- Iris. Madrid: Alfaguara, 2014.
Recent Stories in Anthologies
- “Erin, the Local Version.” Tr. Jenna Tang. Epoch. Forthcoming, Spring 2025.
- “I am a Turtle.” Tr. Joaquín Gavilano. Southwest Review. Forthcoming, Winter 2025.
- “La casa del ataúd.” Revista de la Universidad de México, nov. 2023.
- “La muñeca japonesa.” Revista de la Universidad de México, 2023.
- “El astronauta Michel Garcia.” Carátula 112 (2022).
- “The Mother.” Tr. Jenna Tang. Southwest Review 107.3 (2022).
- “The Next Move.” Tr. Jessica Sequeira. The Best of World Science Fiction, Vol 2. Lavie Tidhar, ed. Gloucestershire: Head of Zeus, 2022.
- “The Señor of La Palma.” Tr. Jenna Tang. McSweeney’s. “Plundered” issue. 65 (2021), 183-200.
- “El Señor de La Palma.” Casapaís. https://www.casapais.org/la-primera-nocion-del-exilio/el-senor-de-la-palma?rq=el%20señor%20de%20la%20palma
- “Billie Ruth.” Olfato de gol. Nuevos cuentos de fútbol. Antonio Sánchez Jiménez and José Domínguez Búrdalo, eds. Madrid: Reino de Cordelia, 2021. 153-66.
- “Robot Poet.” Tr. Roy Youdale. Storythings. https://storythings.com/work/robot-poet/
Academic Books
Segundas oportunidades. Santiago de Chile: Ediciones Diego Portales, 2015.
with Gustavo Faverón, eds. Bolaňo salvaje. Barcelona: Candaya, 2008.
- Editor (Prologue, Timeline , and Bibliography). Alcides Arguedas. Raza de Bronce. Caracas: Bibioteca Ayacucho, 2006
- Alcides Arguedas y la narrativa de la nación enferma. La Paz: Plural, 2003.
- (with Debra Castillo, eds), Latin American Literature and Mass Media. New York: Garland, 2000.
Recent Articles
“Formas de narrar el cambio climático en la ficción latinoamericana.” Poshumanismo en la ficción especulativa latinoamericana. Manuel Santana, Ed. Vizcaya: Ediciones Reichenberger. Forthcoming, 2025.
“New Media and New Media Technologies in Latin American Writing.” The World Inside: Latin American Literatures in Global Markets. Mabel Moraña and Ana Gallego, Eds. Leiden: Brill, 2023.
“Horror y tecnología en Nefando, de Mónica Ojeda.” Recalibrando los circuitos de la máquina. Ciencia ficción e imaginarios tecnológicos en la narrativa en español del siglo XXI. Jonatan Martin Gomez and Patricio Sullivan, eds. Valencia: Albatrós, 2022.
“Roberto Bolaño After the Fall of the Wall: 1989-2001.” Roberto Bolaño in Context. Jonathan Monroe, Ed. Cambridge UP, 2022.
“Por favor rebobinar: a veinte años de McOndo y Se habla español.” McCrack: McOndo, el Crack y los destinos de la literatura latinoamericana. Pablo Brescia y Oswaldo Estrada, Eds. Valencia: Albatrós, 2018. 23-28.
“Hilda Mundy y la ‘Dislocadura de la Lógica.” Un asombro renovado: Vanguardias contemporáneas en Latinoamérica. Luis Hernán Castañeda and Matthew Bush, eds. Madrid: Iberoamericana, 2017. 21-36.
“Afterword: Latin American Tecnoculture Today.” Technology, Literature, and Digital Culture Today: Mediatized Sensibilities in a Globalized Era. Matt Bush and Tania Gentic, Eds. New York: Routledge, 2015.
“Hilda Mundy, la vanguardista pirómana.” Prologue. Hilda Mundy. Pirotecnia. 1936. Santiago: Los libros de la mujer rota, 2015.
“Art’s Place in Narco Culture: Yuri Herrera’s Kingdom Cons.” Review 86 (Spring 2013). Issue Guest-Edited by Carmen Boullosa and Jorge Volpi.
In the news
- Writing against productivity in Latin American fiction
- A&S honors 10 faculty with endowed professorships
- A&S welcomes 10 new Klarman Fellows to expanded program
- MacArthur Fellow to speak on American border crisis
- Let the novel speak
- Two professors nominated for prestigious short story award
- Conference in Spain on work of Edmundo Paz Soldán
