Carlos Fonseca (San José, Costa Rica, 1987) has a doctorate in Latin American Literature from Princeton. He has contributed to various literary magazines and newspapers including Literary Hub, The Guardian, LetrasLibres, BOMB Magazine and Otra Parte among others. He has also featured at the Hay Festival as part of the 2017 Bogotá 39 group (which brought together thirty-nine noteworthy Latin American authors under the age of forty) and and at the Feria del Libro de Guadalajarra through the Ochenteros project's twenty New Voices in Latin American Literature. His first novel 'Coronel Lágrimas' ('Colonel Lágrimas') was published by Anagrama to critical acclaim and was translated into English.