Valeria Luiselli

Biography

Valeria Luiselli is the author of the novels Lost Children Archive (Knopf, 2019), The Story of My Teeth (Coffee House, 2015), and Faces in the Crowd (Coffee House, 2014), and the books of essays Sidewalks (Coffee House, 2014) and Tell Me How It Ends (Coffee House, 2017), which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism 2017.

See Work

FICTION / Spring 2019

Stray Fragments

By Valeria Luiselli ,  Illustration by Ryan Floyd Johnson

Think about losing things when you are a child, and how losing things thrusts you into a state of absolute despair, even if what you lost is relatively unimportant: toothbrush, sweater, homework folder.

Adults. We are like balloons inflated...

Illustration by Ryan Floyd Johnson