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 Sidewalks, Faces in the Crowd, The Story of My Teeth, Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions, and Lost Children Archive. She is the recipient of a 2019 MacArthur Fellowship and the winner of the DUBLIN Literary Award, two Los Angeles Times Book Prizes, The Carnegie Medal, and an American Book Award.

Inventing the Commons: On Alternative Technologies

By Yásnaya Elena Gil, guest-edited by Valeria Luiselli and Heather Cleary, translated by Heather Cleary January 15, 2025
If the strategy of reciprocity made it possible to survive the disaster of colonialism, it could also be a response that makes non-capitalist technological innovation possible.

Guadalupe Nettel and the Extraterritoriality of Latin America

By Valeria Luiselli, translated from the Spanish by Samuel Rutter May 23, 2019
In “After the Winter,” the novelist imagines a new relationship with ghosts, literary and otherwise.