Juan Carlos Reyes’s stories, poems and essays have appeared in Florida Review, Waccamaw, and Hawai’i Review, among others. His debut fiction collection, Three Alarm Fire, (Hinton Publishing, 2024) has been called “surreal and unsettling” by Elaine Chiew at Foreword Reviews. His novella, A Summer’s Lynching, won the Quarterly West fiction prize in 2017, and his fiction chapbook, Elements of a Bystander, won the Arcadia Press fiction Prize that same year. He has been the recipient of the Gar LaSalle Artist Trust Storyteller Award, a PEN USA Emerging Voices Fellowship, and a Jack Straw Writers Fellowship, among others. Originally from Guayaquil, Ecuador, he received his MFA from The University of Alabama and is a former board president of UNESCO Seattle City of Literature. He directed Stetson University’s MFA of the Americas and now serves as an Associate Professor of creative writing at Seattle University.