Diego Gerard Morrison

Diego Gerard Morrison (Mexico City, 1984) is a writer, editor, and translator whose recent work explores themes of Magical Realism and appropriation in the context of the Mexican drug war. His first book, The Wait (John of the Thing, 2021), appropriates Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot in a setting of Mexican cartel violence and its resulting crisis of forced disappearances. His debut novel, Myth of Pterygium (Autumn House Press, 2022) was the winner of the Rising Prize in Fiction. He is the author of the novel Pages of Mourning (Two Dollar Radio, 2024). He is the co-founder and editor of diSONARE, an editorial project based in Mexico City.

Diego Gerard Morrison's Autumn House Books