Diego Gerard Morrison

Diego Gerard Morrison is a writer, editor, and translator whose recent work explores themes of Magical Realism and appropriation in the context of the Mexican drug war. He is the author of The Wait (John of the Thing, 2021), an appropriation of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot in a setting of Mexican cartel violence and its resulting crisis of forced disappearances, and the novels Myth of Pterygium (Autumn House Press, 2022), winner of the Rising Prize in Fiction, and Pages of Mourning (Two Dollar Radio, 2024). He is the co-founder and editor of diSONARE and lives in Mexico City.