An evening of magical realist tales with Bolivian author Liliana Colanzi discussing her latest collection of short stories *You Glow In the Dark,* in conversation with University of Bristol's Dr. Rebecca Kosick.

Set in a Latin America at once real and otherworldly, where human vice contaminates every page, *You Glow in the Dark*  radiates in the reader’s mind long after the final page, announcing a daring new voice in fiction. Amid eerie near-future landscapes, in communities both ordinary and uncanny, and during the very real fallout of a nuclear disaster, Colanzi’s characters must contend with a poisoned legacy.

*You Glow in the Dark* is a mesmerizing mix of gothic horror and cyberpunk that will keep readers on their toes. - The 100 Must-Read Books of 2024, TIME

 An eerie mix of the familiar and unreal ... heat and toxic radiation ― and the babble of inner voices ― combine to create a hallucinatory vision. - The New York Times

 Lilana Colanzi's short stories hit hard; they are creepy and beautiful in equal measure. They are excellent examples of this literary form ― and how it can be utilized, bent and even transformed. - Jury of the Zinklar Prisen Award

In Colanzi’s writing, reality is grander and weirder than we imagined. - Los Angeles Review of Books

In [Colanzi’s] tales, violence is something in the air or soil, something ready to take us over or occupy our lives at any moment. - Chicago Review of Books

Bios:

Liliana Colanzi is a Bolivian writer, a Latin American Literature teacher at Cornell University and founder of Dum Dum Publishing House. She has published three short story collections characterised by their dystopian and innovative explorations of South America, two of which have been translated into English: *Our Dead World* (2017) and *You Glow In The Dark*  (2025).

Rebecca Kosick is a poet, translator, and scholar living in Bristol. She is the author of *Labor Day* (2020) and editor/translator of *Hélio Oiticica: Secret Poetics* (2023). She has just published *Dispatches from the Avant-Garage: The Alternative Press*.

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