JJ Amaworo Wilson is the writer-in-residence at Western New Mexico University; a faculty member on Stonecoast’s MFA in Creative Writing; and the author of over twenty books. His 2016 novel, Damnificados, won four major awards and was an Oprah Top Pick. His most recent novel, Nazaré, came out in 2021. He has lived in eleven countries and visited over seventy.