Hernan Diaz is the author of the novel In the Distance (Coffee House Press, 2017), a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and Borges, between History and Eternity (Bloomsbury, 2012). His work has appeared in Cabinet, Granta, The Kenyon Review, The New York Times, and The Paris Review, among others. Diaz is the managing editor of the Revista Hispánica Moderna and the associate director of the Hispanic Institute at Columbia University.