ABOUT THE AUTHOR

John Manuel Arias is a queer Costa Rican American poet and writer. He is a CantoMundo fellow and alumnus of the Tin House Summer Workshop. His prose and poetry have been published in PANK, The Rumpus, F(r)iction, Joyland, and Akashic Books. He has lived in Washington, DC; Brooklyn, New York; and San José, Costa Rica, with his grandmother and four ghosts. You can sign up for email updates here.