JAVIER FUENTES is a Spanish American writer whose debut work of fiction, Countries of Origin: A Novel (Vintage), won the 2024 PEN/Hemingway award. He has received fellowships from Columbia University, Lambda Literary, and the Ucross Foundation. Fuentes has taught at the School of Visual Arts, Columbia University, and Bard College, where he was the inaugural Paris Review visiting professor of literature at the Bard Prison Initiative. Born in Barcelona, he lives in New York.