Javier Fuentes is a Spanish American writer whose debut novel, Countries of Origin, won the 2024 PEN/Hemingway award.
A 2018 Lambda Literary Fellow, Javier earned an MFA in Fiction from Columbia University where he was a teaching fellow.
Javier has taught at the School of Visual Arts, Columbia University, and Bard College. He is currently the Paris Review Professor of Literature at the Bard Prison Initiative.
