About Luis Othoniel Rosa Books
Luis Othoniel Rosa is a Puerto Rican writer from Bayamón. He studied at the University of Puerto Rico and holds a PhD from Princeton University, and his work engages with questions of literature, politics and form.Katie Marya is the author of Sugar Work, the Editor's Choice for the 2020 Alice James Book Award, and the translator of Luis Othoniel Rosa's novel Animal Spiral (2026). She has been awarded the James Dickey Prize in Poetry from Five Points and support from the Nebraska Arts Council and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts. She is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Murray State University.