JOHN MANUEL ARIAS, a Costa Rican American poet, writer, and author of Crocodilopolis: A Novel (Bloomsbury Publishing), is the nationally bestselling author of Where There Was Fire, a finalist for the Barnes & Noble Discover Prize and the PEN Open Book Award. Arias has published work in Harper’s Bazaar, The Kenyon Review, Electric Literature, F(r)iction, and more.
