John Manuel Arias
queer, Costa Rican American poet and National Bestselling author of Where There Was Fire
About John Manuel
John Manuel Arias is a queer, Costa Rican American poet and National Bestselling author of Where There Was Fire. A Canto Mundo fellow & an alumnus of the Tin House Summer Writers Workshop, his prose and poetry have been published in The Kenyon Review, PANK, The Rumpus, and Akashic Books. He has lived in Washington D.C., Brooklyn New York, and in San José, Costa Rica with his grandmother and four ghosts.