John Manuel Arias is a gay, Costa Rican and Uruguayan writer back in Brooklyn after many years. He is a Canto Mundo fellow & alumnus of the Tin House Summer Writers Workshop. His fiction has found homes in The Rumpus, Joyland Magazine, The Kenyon Review, and F(r)iction. His debut novel WHERE THERE WAS FIRE is forthcoming from Flatiron Books. Before Brooklyn, he lived in Costa Rica with his grandmother and four ghosts.

John Manuel Arias es un escritor gay, costarricense y uruguayo que ha regresado a vivir en Brooklyn después de muchos años. Es becario de Canto Mundo y ex alumno del Taller de Escritores de Verano de Tin House. Su ficción ha sido publicado en The Rumpus, Joyland Magazine, The Kenyon Review y F(r)iction. Su primera novela WHERE THERE WAS FIRE se publicará próximamente en Flatiron Books. Antes de Brooklyn, vivió en Costa Rica con su abuela y cuatro fantasmas.