The Future of New Writing: Valeria Luiselli

Valeria Luiselli was born in Mexico City and grew up in South Africa. She is the author of Sidewalks, a collection of personal essays; the essay “Tell Me How It Ends”; and the novels Faces in the Crowd and The Story of My Teeth. The latter novel, which was written in installments for workers in a juice factory, won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction and was a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award. She lives in Harlem.

Photo by Diego Berruecos.