José García Escobar is a journalist, fiction writer, translator, and former Fulbright scholar from Guatemala. He received his MFA in Creative Writing from The New School in New York City. His writing has appeared in Guernica, Words Without Borders, Slice Literary Magazine, The Millions, and is forthcoming in Blunderbuss Magazine and the Evergreen Review. He’s Asymptote’s newly appointed Editor-at-Large for the Central American region.