JUAN CARLOS REYES
"Three Alarm Fire is a heartrending and urgent collection. Youth, neighborhoods, relationships, and literary culture itself is found in disarray. National tragedies exist both at the periphery of the lives found in these spellbinding stories and in their front yards, streets, basements, and screens. Juan Carlos Reyes’ prose is tender, deeply understanding, and captivating. While reading, I found myself imagining what stories might emerge if Don DeLillo and Clarice Lispector spent an afternoon together in small café talking about dying empires and the types of love that still bind us. These are those stories, and so much more."
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–MICHAEL ZAPATA, author of The Lost Book of Adaana Moreau
Juan Carlos Reyes's fictions, poems and essays have appeared in Florida Review, Waccamaw Journal, and Hawai’i Review, among others. His debut fiction collection, Three Alarm Fire (Hinton Publishing, 2024) was the NPR/KUOW January 2025 Book Club Selection. His novella A Summer's Lynching won the Quarterly West novella contest in 2017. He has been the recipient of the WA State Artist Trust Storyteller Award, a PEN USA Emerging Voices Fellowship, and a Jack Straw Writers Fellowship, among others. He received his MFA from The University of Alabama and has taught with the Alabama Prison Arts + Education Project and Stetson University's MFA of the Americas. He is former board president of UNESCO Seattle City of Literature and now serves as an Associate Professor at Seattle University, where he is the Creative Writing Program Director and foundational member of the Tech Ethics Initiative.
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