John Manuel Arias is the national bestselling author of Where There Was Fire, a finalist for the Barnes & Noble Discover Prize and the PEN Open Book Award. Arias has published work in Harper’s Bazaar, the Kenyon Review, Electric Literature, F(r)iction, and more. He has lived in Washington, D.C.; Brooklyn, New York; and in San José, Costa Rica, with his grandmother and four ghosts.
