Liliana Colanzi

Colanzi was born in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, in 1981, and studied at the Private University of Santa Cruz de la Sierra (UPSA) and the University of Cambridge. She obtained a doctorate in Comparative Literature from Cornell University, where she now teaches.^[2]

She is the author of four collections of short stories: Vacaciones permanentes (2010); La ola (2014); Nuestro mundo muerto (2016), which has been translated into English by Jessica Sequeira^[3]; and Ustedes brillan en lo oscuro^[4].

In 2017, Colanzi was named one of the best young writers in Latin America as part of Bogotá39.^[5]

• Vacaciones permanentes (2010)
• Nuestro mundo muerto (2016). Our Dead World, Jessica Sequeira (Dalkey Archive, 2017)
• Ustedes brillan en lo oscuro (2022). You Glow in the Dark, trans. Chris Andrews (New Directions, 2024)^[6]