About
Ruben Reyes Jr. is an American writer and the son of Salvadoran immigrants. Originally from Southern California, he studied history and literature at Harvard College, where he founded the Latinx literary magazine Palabritas. He later earned an MFA in fiction from the University of Iowa’s prestigious Iowa Writers’ Workshop. His fiction and essays have appeared in publications including The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, AGNI, and Lightspeed. Reyes’s debut collection, There Is a Rio Grande in Heaven (2024), received recognition for its inventive combination of speculative fiction, satire, and magical realism to examine migration and Salvadoran identity. His writing often explores the experiences of immigrant families, the persistence of historical injustice, and the ways technology and social systems shape human lives. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
