Gerardo Sámano Córdova

Born in Mexico City forty-three years ago, Gerardo Sámano Córdova studied film at Ithaca College, worked as a graphic designer for a New York designer, lived a bohemian life in Berlin, and spent several years as a publicist in the capital of his home country. All this before moving to Michigan to study creative writing. Currently, Sámano is a writer-in-residence at Fordham University in New York and is finishing his second novel. Monstrilio, his debut work, has already been translated into a dozen languages.