Horacio Castellanos Moya

Horacio Castellanos Moya was born in Honduras, but grew up in El Salvador. He has lived in Guatemala, Canada, Costa Rica, Mexico, Spain and Germany. He has published eight novels, which have been translated into a number of languages. His novel Senselessness was published to critical acclaim in 2008. Moya currently lives in exile as part of the City of Asylum project in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He reads from Dance with Snakes, set in an El Salvador returning to peace after more than a decade of war.