Daniel Alarcón is the author of two story collections, and the novel Lost City Radio, winner of the 2009 International Literature Prize given by the House of World Cultures in Berlin. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Harper's, The New Yorker, Granta, and the Virginia Quarterly Review. He is Associate Editor of Etiqueta Negra, an award-winning magazine published in his native Lima, Peru, and a Visiting Scholar at the UC Berkeley Center for Latin American Studies.