American · b. 1989
Karla Cornejo Villavicencio's "Catalina" was longlisted for the 2024 National Book Award, a novel about undocumented life in America. The Ecuadorian-American author's nonfiction work "The Undocumented Americans" was a finalist for the National Book Award. Cornejo Villavicencio writes about immigration with the authority of experience and the ambition of literature.