Undocumented Americans

Karla Cornejo Villavicencio has written about immigration, music, beauty, and mental illness for the New York Times, the Atlantic, the New Republic, Glamour, Elle, Vogue, n+1 and the New Inquiry, among others. She lives in New Haven with her partner and their dog.

‘An intimate look at the lives of the so-called undocumented in the United States, and also a milestone of literary journalism’ - Dave Eggers'It remains rare for undocumented Americans to share their own stories in full. In this nearly decade-long feat of reporting, Karla Cornejo Villavicencio's book shows the complex nature of undocumented immigrants' lives' -Time'There's nothing to do but sit down and read this book. Inside it, I feel deep in being, immersed in a frankness and a swerving bright and revelatory funkiness I've not encountered ever before concerning the collective daily life of an undocumented family in America' - Eileen Myles‘This is the book we've been waiting for. Karla Cornejo Villavicencio writes about migrants in a way they've never been written about before – in all their complexity, messiness, humanity, and beauty. Deeply personal and so superbly told, this is a work we will be talking about for a long time to come’ - Roberto G. Gonzales, author of Lives in Limbo: Undocumented and Coming of Age in America