John Manuel Arias

John Manuel Arias is a queer, Costa Rican-American poet and writer. Featured by Publishers Weekly as a “Writer to Watch”, he is a Canto Mundo fellow & alumnus of the Tin House Summer Writers Workshop. His prose and poetry have been published in PANK, The Rumpus, F(r)iction, Joyland Magazine,and Akashic Books. He has lived in Washington D.C., Brooklyn New York, and in San José, Costa Rica with his grandmother and four ghosts. Where There Was Fire, a GMA “Buzz Pick”, is his debut novel.