Valeria Luiselli

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 essays Tell Me How It Ends and Sidewalks; the sonic essay Echoes From the Borderlands; and the novels Faces in the Crowd, The Story of My Teeth, Lost Children Archive, and Beginning Middle End. 

 

She is the recipient of a 2019 MacArthur Fellowship and the winner of DUBLIN Literary Award, two Los Angeles Times Book Prizes, The Carnegie Medal, an American Book Award,  and has been nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Kirkus Prize, and the Booker Prize. She has been the recipient of a Bearing Witness Fellowship from the Art for Justice Fund, a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Vilcek Prize. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Granta, and McSweeney's, among other publications, and has been translated into more than thirty languages. Her ongoing project in sound-scapes and oral histories, Echoes From the Borderlands, has been featured at the DIA Chelsea and the Harvard Art Lab, among other places. She teaches at Bard College and Harvard University.

 

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