Speaker bio

Valeria Luiselli was born in Mexico City and grew up in Costa Rica, South Korea, South Africa and India. An acclaimed writer of both fiction and nonfiction, she is the author of 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 Genius Grant for “challenging conventional notions of authorship in fiction, essays, and inventive hybrids of the two that pose profound questions about the various ways we piece together stories and document the lives of others.” Her work is published in more than thirty languages. She is a professor at Bard College. Her new novel, Beginning, Middle, End will publish in 2026. LINKS: Sidewalks: https://swiy.co/BSWC2026-VL-Sidewalks Faces In The Crowd: https://swiy.co/BSWC2026-VL-FacesInTheCrowd The Story of My Teeth: https://swiy.co/BSWC2026-VL-TheStoryOfMyTeeth Tell Me How It Ends: https://swiy.co/BSWC2026-VL-TellMeHowItEnds Lost Children Archive: https://swiy.co/BSWC2026-VL-TheLostChildrenArchive Beginning, Middle, End: https://swiy.co/BSWC2026-VL-BegnningMiddleEnd