Bestselling novelist Ingrid Rojas Contreras’ breakout novel, Fruit of the Drunken Tree, earned the silver medal winner in First Fiction from the California Book Awards, was longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award, and was a New York Times Editors’ Choice, an Indie Next Pick, and a Barnes and Noble “Discover Great New Writers” selection. Rojas Contreras’ latest book The Man Who Could Move Clouds was named a “Best Book of the Year” by TIME Magazine, NPR, Vulture, People, The Boston Globe, Esquire; a Finalist for the National Book Award for Nonfiction and the Pulitzer; and a winner of the California Book Award. She is at work on a new novel.

(Photo credit: Jeremiah Barber)