Valeria Luiselli

About

Writer known for titles such as Sidewalks, Faces in the Crowd, The Story of My Teeth, Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions and Lost Children Archive. In 2019, she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. Her writing has been published by The New Yorker, The New York Times, Granta, and McSweeney's. She uses her valeria.luiselliI Instagram account to promote her books and other books she reads.

Before Fame

She began sharing content on Instagram in June of 2016. 

Trivia

She has won two Los Angeles Times Book Prizes, The Carnegie Medal, an American Book Award, and has been nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Kirkus Prize, and the Booker Prize. She has also served as a writer-in-residence at Bard College. 

Family Life

She was born in Mexico City and was raised in South Africa, South Korea, and India. She resides in New York City. 

Associated With

Jorge Cruise was also born in Mexico.