The White Review and The Center for Fiction are pleased to announce the U.S. launch of The White Review No. 16. Please join us at the Center for Fiction at 6:30pm on Thursday, 26 May for drinks and readings from Alejandro Zambra and Sophie Seita.

If you would like to attend, please RSVP by following the link here.

Alejandro Zambra is a Chilean writer. He has published the novels Bonsai, The Private Lives of Trees, and Ways of Going Home, and the story collection My Documents. His latest book, Multiple Choice, translated by Megan McDowell, is forthcoming from Penguin in July. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Tin House, and Harper’s, among other places.

Sophie Seita’s published works include Meat (Little Red Leaves, 2015), 12 Steps (Wide Range, 2012), Fantasias in Counting (BlazeVOX, 2014) and I Mean I Dislike That Fate That I Was Made to Where, a translation of the German poet Uljana Wolf (Wonder, 2015). She is the recipient of the John Kinsella and Tracy Ryan Poetry Prize (2012), the second Wonder Book Prize (2014, with Uljana Wolf), and the recipient of a PEN/Heim award (2015) for her forthcoming full-length translation of Subsisters: Selected Poems by Uljana Wolf (Belladonna, 2017). She’s currently preparing a critical centenary edition of the little magazine The Blind Man (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2017).