Juan Carlos Reyes

Juan Carlos Reyes was born in Guayaquil, Ecuador. He's the product of a math degree, though only words hold his attention anymore. His first book, A Summer's Lynching, won the Quarterly West 2016 novella prize, and his chapbook, Elements of a Bystander, won the 2017 Arcadia Press Chapbook Prize. His stories, poems and essays have appeared in Ascentos Review, KGB Lit, and Hawai’i Review, among others. He is currently a Jack Straw Fellow and serves as an assistant professor of creative writing at Seattle University.