Daniel Alarcón

Daniel Alarcón is associate editor of Etiqueta Negra, a monthly magazine published in his native Lima, Peru. His short story collection, War by Candlelight (Harper-Collins), was a finalist for the 2006 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award. His first novel, Lost City Radio (HarperCollins, 2007), was named a Best Book of the Year by the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Christian Science Monitor, and Chicago Tribune. He lives in Oakland, California.

Published in VQR

• You Do Not Represent the Government of the United States, Summer 2008
• American Labasha, Winter 2008
• South America in the 21st Century, Fall 2007
• The Very Edge of the World, Fall 2007
• A Circus at the Center of the World, Winter 2007
• Lima, Peru, July 28, 1979, Summer 2004