Mauricio Ruiz

Mauricio Ruiz is a novelist, translator, and cultural journalist. He was born in Mexico City and has lived in Norway, Belgium and the US. He’s been shortlisted for the Bridport and Fish Short Story Prizes, and received fellowships from OMI Writers (New York, US), Jakob Sande (Sunnfjord, Norway), Three Seas Council (Rhodes, Greece), Société des auteurs (Brussels, Belgium), and Can Serrat (Catalonia, Spain). His work has appeared in Words Without Borders, Electric Literature, The Common, The Rumpus, The Masters Review, Letras Libres, Gatopardo, among others. He has published two collections of short stories and is at work on his fourth novel. He’s currently a grad student in creative writing at the University of Iowa.