Mauro Javier Cardenas (’02, ’17) grew up in Guayaquil, Ecuador, and graduated with a degree in Economics from Stanford University. He’s the author of American Abductions (Dalkey, 2024), Aphasia (FSG, 2020) and The Revolutionaries Try Again (Coffee House Press, 2016). In 2016 he received a Joseph Henry Jackson Award and in 2017 the Hay Festival included him in Bogota 39, a selection of the best young Latin American novelists. His fiction has appeared in Conjunctions, The Antioch Review, Guernica, Witness, ZYZZYVA and BOMB. He’s the recipient of the 2016 Joseph Henry Jackson Award.