Juan Martinez

Juan Martinez is the author of Best Worst American, a story collection published by Small Beer Press, and the inaugural winner of the Neukom Institute Literary Arts Award for Debut Speculative Fiction. He lives in Chicago and is an assistant professor at Northwestern University. His work appears in many literary journals and anthologies, including Glimmer Train, McSweeney’s, Huizache, Ecotone, NPR’s Selected Shorts, Mississippi Review, and elsewhere.

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Juan Martinez  | 
Issue 69.2 Spring 2020

—for Thomas Ligotti They wanted to turn the school by our luxury condo into another luxury condo. I told my wife, Dawn, that it was a bad idea, and she agreed: it was gross, it was wrong. Plus, those condos are totally going to be haunted. I said, How many kids do you think […]