Carlos Fonseca is a Costa Rican-Puerto Rican writer born in 1987. He is the author of the novels Coronel Lágrimas (Anagrama, 2015; translated to English by Megan McDowell as Colonel Lágrimas, Restless Books, 2016) and Museo animal (Anagrama, 2017; translated to English by Megan McDowell as Natural History, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020). His new novel Austral will be published in April by Anagrama.