Gabriela Alemán lives in Quito, Ecuador. Her literary honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship; member of Bogotá39, a 2007 selection of the most important up-and-coming writers in Latin America; and finalist for the 2015 Premio Hispanoamericano de Cuento Gabriel García Márquez (Colombia) for her short story collection La muerte silba un blues, from which “War of the Worlds” is taken. Her novel Poso Wells and her story collection Family Album are both published in English translation by City Lights Books.