Alejandro Varela
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Alejandro Varela

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Alejandro Varela writes humorous, sexy, and brilliantly neurotic tales about the messiness of modern life, long-term relationships, and the structural anxieties of the body politic. His debut novel, The Town of Babylon, was a finalist for the National Book Award. His follow-up story collection, The People Who Report More Stress, was named a best book of the year by Publishers Weekly and longlisted for the Jean Stein Award and the Aspen Words Literary Prize. His latest novel, Middle Spoon, longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize, explores unorthodox queer family dynamics with what Pulitzer Prize-winner Andrew Sean Greer calls "arias of love and choruses of doubt... a sly, analytical opera of the heart." Backed by a background in public health (holding an MPH from the University of Washington), Alejandro’s fiction deftly dissects the intersections of race, class, and community. He is a Jerome Fellow, an editor-at-large of Apogee Journal, and his shorter work has appeared in Harper’s, The Washington Post, and The Point. He lives in New York.
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