About

Michael Adam Carroll is a Guatemalan-American writer living in San Antonio, TX. Born and raised in Guatemala City, his family moved to the United States during the Guatemalan Civil War.

He’s an alumnus of the Tin House Summer Workshop and been accepted into the upcoming Sewanee Writers’ Conference. He earned a PhD in Peninsular and Latin American Literatures from the University of Colorado at Boulder. He’s a member of NBCC and AWP. He writes on immigration, culture, and diverse voices in fiction.

Michael’s essays have appeared in Ploughshares online, the Los Angeles Review of Books, The Believer online, The Millions, Romance Quarterly, Anales Galdosianos, and the Rocky Mountain Review. Click here to see his published work.

He’s currently working on his firs novel. Set in present-day San Francisco and Guatemala, it explores home and identity in a multicultural family across generations.

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