DO YOU GLOW IN THE DARK?

In Liliana Colanzi’s singular collection of short stories, set in a Latin America at once real and otherworldly, human vice contaminates every page. Amid eerie near-future landscapes, in communities both ordinary and uncanny, and during the very real fallout of a nuclear disaster, Colanzi’s characters must contend with a poisoned legacy.

Unpredictable and vivid, You Glow in the Dark radiates in the reader’s mind long after the final page and announces a daring new voice in fiction.

Prizes

Winner of The Premio de Narrativa Breve Ribera del Duero 2022 (Spain),Winner of Zinklar Prisen Award 2025 (Denmark),Short-listed for The New South Wales Premier's Translation Prize 2025 (Australia),Nominated for BSFA Award for Best Translated Fiction 2025 (UK)

'An eerie mix of the familiar and unreal . . . the heat and toxic radiation – and the babble of inner voices – combine to create a hallucinatory vision.'

'In Colanzi’s writing, reality is grander and weirder than we imagined.'

'In [Colanzi’s] tales, violence is something in the air or soil, something ready to take us over or occupy our lives at any moment.'

'You Glow in the Dark is a mesmerizing mix of gothic horror and cyberpunk that will keep readers on their toes.'

'A revelation'

'Liliana Colanzi's short stories hit hard; they are creepy and beautiful in equal measure. They are excellent examples of this literary form – and how it can be utilized, bent and even transformed.'

'In You Glow In The Dark Liliana Colanzi doesn’t ease you in, she drops you straight into Latin American urban dystopias and eerie futures where Aymara myth collides with sci-fi and horror. These seven stories are fragmented, fearless, and completely original, making you flinch and question reality. It’s a bold, electric collection from a voice you won’t forget in a hurry.'

'A wonderful, pungent, vivid and short collection of stories, part gothic horror, part sci-fi, which grew out of the jungle and the earth and the bloody history of South America.'

Liliana Colanzi was born in Bolivia in 1981. She teaches Latin American literature at Cornell University and is the founding publisher of Dum Dum editora in Bolivia. In 2022, You Glow in the Dark won Spain’s Ribera del Duero Short Story Prize and in 2025 it was the recipient of the Zinklar Award for short story writers. 

Chris Andrews was born in Australia in 1962. He has won the Valle-Inclán Prize and the French-American Foundation Translation Prize for his translations, which include nine books by Roberto Bolaño and ten books by César Aira. He has published critical studies and poetry, including the collection Lime Green Chair, for which he won the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize.