For the first time this year, The White Review Poet’s Prize was open to poets based anywhere in the world. Last month we announced a shortlist of eight poets. ...
Liliana Colanzi is a Bolivian author born in 1981. She has published the books of short stories Vacaciones permanentes (2010) and La ola (2014). Her work has appeared in Letras Libres, Etiqueta Negra, Eñe, Two Lines, buensalvaje, and Tierra Adentro. She won the Aura Estrada literary prize in 2015, and is a Ph.D candidate in the Department of Comparative Literature at Cornell University. Her book of short stories The Wave is forthcoming (Dalkey Archive Press).
This story may or may not end in Venice and in silent, unacknowledged tragedy but let it begin here, in London, where RubyTuesday and CallMeIshmael first meet in...