Congratulations to Work-In-Progress Fellow Ananda Lima on the publication of Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil.
Latinx in Publishing celebrates the publication of our Work-in-Progress Fellow Ananda Lima's Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil (Tor Books/Macmillan, June 2024) published to great praise as an intoxicating and surreal fiction debut! The inaugural Fellowship sponsored by Macmillan was designed to help support and create opportunities for Latinx writers. Author Ananda Lima was paired with Macmillan Senior Editor Ali Fisher working with her during the course of the Fellowship.
At a Halloween party in 1999, a writer slept with the devil. She sees him again and again throughout her life and she writes stories for him about things that are both impossible and true.
Lima lures readers into surreal pockets of the United States and Brazil where they’ll find bite-size Americans in vending machines and the ghosts of people who are not dead. Once there, she speaks to modern Brazilian-American immigrant experiences–of ambition, fear, longing, and belonging—and reveals the porousness of storytelling and of the places we call home.
A great next read for fans of Carmen Maria Machado’s Her Body and Other Parties and V. E. Schwab’s The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue.
Recommended reading by Chicago Review of Books, Electric Literature, The Kenyon Review, and more!
Praise and Press:
“A remarkable debut that announces the arrival of a towering talent in speculative fiction.”—The New York Times
⭐️ “One of the most original and unforgettable reads of the year.” —Library Journal, starred review
⭐️ “A terrific fiction debut. Lima’s prose is lush. The stories, and the stories within those stories, connect to some of the cruelest portions of the human experience with uncommon warmth and wit. Fans of Gabino Iglesias and Carmen Maria Machado will want to snap this up.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review
⭐️ “Will delight readers crushed under the weight of the contemporary world.” —Kirkus Review, starred review
“An astounding new voice.” —ERIC LaROCCA
“I love it so much.” —KELLY LINK
“Trippy, eerie, wry, and always profound.” —JOHN KEENE
“Incredible. Truly wondrous.” —KEVIN WILSON
“Heart wrenching and wickedly funny.” —GWEN KIRBY
“Propulsive, uncanny, and expertly built.” —JULIA FINE
Adult Fiction Fellow
ANANDA LIMA is the author of Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil (Tor Books, 2024) and Mother/land (Black Lawrence Press, 2021), winner of the Hudson Prize. Her work has appeared in American Poetry Review, Poets.org, Kenyon Review, Electric Literature, and elsewhere. She is a Contributing Editor at Poets & Writers and Program Curator at StoryStudio, Chicago. Lima was named in Newcity’s 2025 Lit 50 list, recognizing influential people and organizations shaping Chicago’s literary culture. She was a mentor at the NYFA Immigrant Artist Program and the inaugural Latinx-in-Publishing WIP Fellow, sponsored by Macmillan Publishers. She has an MA in Linguistics (UCLA) and an MFA in Creative Writing (Rutgers-Newark). Craft, her fiction debut, was longlisted for the Story Prize, the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, and received starred reviews from Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, and Library Journal. The New York Times describes it as “a remarkable debut that announces the arrival of a towering talent in speculative fiction.”
Adult Fiction Mentor
ALI FISHER (she/her) is a Senior Editor at Tom Doherty Associates within Macmillan Publishers where she's been acquiring for their adult, young adult, and middle-grade imprints since 2016. She’s acquired and edited New York Times and USA Today bestselling fiction and nonfiction, primarily science fiction, fantasy, horror, and humor. She's currently based in Brooklyn.
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