Gabriela Alemán

Gabriela Alemán, based in Quito, Ecuador, has played professional basketball in Switzerland and Paraguay and has worked as a waitress, administrator, translator, radio scriptwriter, and film studies professor. She received a PhD at Tulane University and holds a Master's degree in Latin American Literature from Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar. Her literary honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2006; being one of five finalists for the 2015 Premio Hispanoamericano de Cuento Gabriel García Márquez; and winner of several prizes for critical essays on literature and film. Poso Wells, her first full-length work to appear in English, is available from City Lights.