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. He is the author of The Wait (John of the Thing, 2021), an appropriation of 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. His novel Pages of Mourning (Two Dollar Radio, 2024) is forthcoming. He is the cofounder and editor of diSONARE, an editorial project based in Mexico City. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Brooklyn Rail, The Roanoke Review, The River Rail, Terremoto, Shifter, Precog Magazine, Bombay Gin and Boiler House Press, among others.