Suggestion:
I am adding Alacon to the list of people I need to check out. Look below at the About the Author and the readings website, he may be doing a reading near you.
About the Author:
taken from: http://www.danielalarcon.com/index.html
Daniel Alarcón’s fiction and nonfiction have been published in The New Yorker, Harper's, Virginia Quarterly Review, Salon, Eyeshot and elsewhere. He is Associate Editor of Etiqueta Negra, an award-winning monthly magazine based in his native Lima, Peru. His story collection, War by Candlelight, was a finalist for the 2006 PEN/Hemingway Foundation Award, and the British journal Granta recently named him one of the Best Young American Novelists. A former Fulbright Scholar to Peru and the recipient of a Whiting Award for 2004, he lives in Oakland, California, where he is the Distinguished Visiting Writer at Mills College. His first novel Lost City Radio was published in February 2007.
readings: http://www.danielalarcon.com/english/readings/
Granta: http://www.bestyoungnovelists.com/Daniel-Alarcon
