John Manuel Arias is a queer, Costa Rican-American poet and writer, whose debut novel Where There Was Fire is forthcoming from Flatiron Books (2023). A Canto Mundo fellow & alumnus of the Tin House Summer Writers Workshop, his prose and poetry have been published in PANK, The Rumpus, F(r)iction, Joyland Magazine, 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.
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