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Longlisted for the 2025 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

There Is a Rio Grande in Heaven

by Ruben Reyes Jr.

Ruben Reyes Jr. is the son of two Salvadoran immigrants and the author of There Is a Rio Grande in Heaven. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and Harvard College, his writing has appeared in The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, Lightspeed Magazine, and other publications. Originally from Southern California, he now lives in Brooklyn.

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