Valeria Luiselli is a Mexican-American author born in Mexico City in 1983. She has established herself as a significant voice in contemporary literature, with her work appearing in prestigious publications including The New York Times, Granta, McSweeney's, and The New Yorker. Luiselli is the author of the essay collection Sidewalks and the novel Faces in the Crowd, which won the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction. Her writing has reached an international audience, with her books translated into more than 20 languages.