Episode 12 - Juan Carlos Reyes

Terry is joined on today's show by author Juan Carlos Reyes! Remember folks, the Under Review is currently open for submissions for our fourth issue, which will be published this June! If you have any kinds of literary sports musings, either on paper or just floating around your noggin, then hit us up! We would love to see your work.

Juan Carlos Reyes has published the novella A Summer's Lynching (Quarterly West) and the fiction chapbook Elements of a Bystander (Arcadia Press). His stories, poems and essays have appeared in Florida Review, Waccamaw Journal, and Hawai’i Review, among others. He has been the recipient of the Gar LaSalle Artist Trust Storyteller Award, a PEN USA Emerging Voices Fellowship, and a Jack Straw Writers Fellowship. He received his MFA from The University of Alabama and has taught poetry and fiction with the Alabama Prison Arts + Education Project. He sits on the board of the Seattle City of Literature organization and serves as an Assistant Professor of creative writing at Seattle University. He also serves as the chief editor of Big Fiction magazine (bigfictionmagazine.com).

Juan Carlos and Terry get into the nitty gritty of all the intersections of sports and storytelling, nerd out on some of our favorite sports novels we’ve read in the last year, and there’s a lot of basketball and baseball talk as well. Juan Carlos also shares an exclusive excerpt from his manuscript in progress. It’s a good hang. Thank you again, dear listener for being here, and we hope you enjoy this episode with the wonderful Juan Carlos Reyes.

Juan Carlos is also the author of the essay ‘Court of a Stolen Mixtape,’ which was published in Issue 3 of the Under Review and was the recipient of a 2020 Pushcart Nominee.