Daniel Alarcón

Born in Lima in 1977, Daniel Alarcón immigrated to the U.S. in 1980, grew up in Alabama, and graduated from Columbia University in 1999 and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in 2003. He published a story collection, War by Candlelight, in 2005 and a novel, Lost City Radio, in 2007. His most recent novel, At Night We Walk in Circles, was a finalist for the 2014 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.