John Washington

John Washington is a staff writer at <a href="https://azluminaria.org/">Arizona Luminaria</a>, a community-focused media outlet where he writes about the border, climate change, democracy, and more. His first book, "<a href="https://www.versobooks.com/books/3171-the-dispossessed">The Dispossessed: A Story of Asylum at the US-Mexico Border and Beyond</a>," was published in 2020 by Verso Books. Washington is also a translator, having co-translated, most recently, "The Hollywood Kid," by Óscar Martínez and Juan Martínez, and Blood Barrios, by Alberto Arce, which won a PEN Translates Award. Find more of his work at <a href="https://www.jblackburnwashington.com/">www.jblackburnwashington.com</a>.