Papeles falsos (Sidewalks) (2010) • Los ingrávidos (Faces in the Crowd) (2011) • La historia de mis dientes (The Story of My Teeth) (2015) • Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions (2017) • Lost Children Archive (2019) • The Force of Resonance (2023, Future Library, to be published in 2114) • Los niños perdidos (2024) • Los ingrávidos [The Weightless] (2024) •
Valeria Luiselli, born in 1983 in Mexico City, is a Mexican-American writer whose childhood was spent in multiple countries due to her father’s diplomatic work. She studied philosophy at the National Autonomous University of Mexico and earned a PhD in comparative literature from Columbia University. Her debut, the essay collection Sidewalks (2010), explored memory and urban life, followed by her first novel, Faces in the Crowd (2011), which won the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction. In 2015 she published The Story of My Teeth, an experimental novel created in collaboration with factory workers, which received several major literary prizes. Her nonfiction Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions (2017) drew from her work as an interpreter for Central American child migrants and won the American Book Award.
Her 2019 novel Lost Children Archive, blending a family road trip with the realities of the U.S.–Mexico migrant crisis, won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and the Dublin Literary Award, among others. Luiselli’s work is known for its formal innovation, multilingual sensibility, and engagement with themes of migration, displacement, and identity. She has taught at several universities, including Bard College, where she is Writer in Residence, and her writing has appeared in major outlets such as The New Yorker and Granta. Recognized with honors such as the MacArthur Fellowship and the Vilcek Prize, Luiselli’s works have been translated into more than twenty languages, solidifying her place as a significant voice in contemporary literature.
Luiselli handed her manuscript The Force of Resonance to the Future Library in 2024, work which was preceded by The Lost Children Archive (2019), and followed by Los ingrávidos [The Weightless] released in 2024.