Daniel Alarcón was born in Peru and raised in Alabama. His collection of short stories, War by Candlelight, was published in 2005 to great acclaim, and was followed by a novel, Lost City Radio, in 2007. His writing has appeared in McSweeney’s, n+1 and Harper’s, and he has been named as one of the best 20 writers under 40 by the New Yorker. He lives in Oakland, California. At Night We Walk in Circles is his second novel.