Francisco Goldman’s novel Monkey Boy (2021) was a Pulitzer Prize finalist, and an American Book Award Winner. His novel Say Her Name won the Prix Femina Etranger. The Art of Political Murder won The WOLA/Duke Human Rights Book Award and was the basis for an HBO documentary. The Interior Circuit won the Premio Metropolis Azul. The Long Night of White Chickens won the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction. The Ordinary Seaman was a Dublin Literary Award and PEN/Faulkner finalist. His work has appeared in The New Yorker; Harper’s; and many other publications. He has received a Cullman Center Fellowship; a Guggenheim; a Berlin Prize; and a Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellowship. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. He was awarded a 2018 PEN Mexico Award for Literary Excellence. He co-directs and co-founded the Premio Aura Estrada, and lives in Mexico City with Jovi, Azalea & Jojo. [F]
The Community of Writers is pleased to announce Francisco Goldman comes to us through the support of the Borchard Foundation Center on Literary Arts, of which he is a fellow.