Author Bio
• Birth—1977
• Where—Lima, Peru
• Reared—Birmingham, Alabama, USA
• Education—B.A., Columbia University; M.A. Iowa Writers'
Workshop.
• Awards—Fulbright Scholarship; Guggenheim Fellowship;
Lannan Fellowship
• Currently—lives in Oakland, California, USA
Daniel Alarcon’s work has been published in The New Yorker, Harper's, Virginia Quarterly Review and elsewhere, and anthologized in Best American Non-Required Reading 2004 and 2005. His non-fiction has appeared in Salon.com and Eyeshot, and he is Associate Editor of the Peruvian magazine Etiqueta Negra. He edited a portfolio for the magazine A Public Space on the writing of Peru. He is a former Fulbright Scholar to Peru.
Alarcon, a native of Peru, was raised, from the age of 3, in Birmingham, Alabama, U.S. and is an alumnus of Indian Springs School in Shelby County, Alabama. He holds a bachelors degree in anthropology from Columbia University and a masters from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. He has studied in Ghana and taught in New York City.
His first book War by Candlelight was a finalist for the 2006 PEN/Hemingway Foundation Award. He was recently awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Lannan Fellowship, nominated "One of 21 Young American Novelists" under 35 by Granta magazine.
His debut novel, Lost City Radio, was published in 2007. Both his books have been translated into Spanish. Lost City Radio will be also published in French and Italian in 2008.
Daniel Alarcon lives in Oakland, California, where he is the Distinguished Visiting Writer at Mills College.(From Wikipedia.)