John Manuel Arias is a queer, Costa Rican American poet and writer and author of the national bestselling novel Where There Was Fire. A Canto Mundo fellow and an alumnus of the Tin House Summer Writers Workshop, his work has 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.
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Bloomsbury presents Crocodilopolis by John Manuel Arias, read by Christian Barillas. 'A darkly intoxicating novel, at once mythic and wickedly contemporary...Here is a writer in full command of his world, delivering a ferocious meditation on masculinit... SEE MORE