Alan Grostephan was born and raised in Minnesota. He lived for several years in Bogotá, Colombia, where he taught writing and theater in a slum called Cazucá. He is the editor and translator of “Stories of Life and Death,” a collection of writing from young Colombian writers, and the author of “Bogotá,” a novel chosen by the Wall Street Journal as one of the best ten books of fiction in 2013 and long-listed for the Pen/Robert W. Bingham Prize.
He’s at work on a new novel that won the Ellen Levine Fund Award in 2014. He’s a currently an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing and English at Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Georgia.
Books in order of publication:
Bogotá – 2013
The Banana Wars – 2024
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