Melissa Lozada-Oliva has range. She’s the author of the 2017 poetry collection Peluda (Spanish for “hairy”); her 2021 debut novel , Dreaming of You , explored the legacy of Selena Quintanilla’s too-short life in verse; and in 2023 she released the mystical, multigenerational novel Candelaria . Now, Lozada-Oliva is back with Beyond All Reasonable Doubt, Jesus Is Alive!, a collection of short stories that lives up to its eye-catching title.

This week, Vogue spoke to Lozada-Oliva about body horror metaphors, drawing inspiration from the syntax of an Evangelical highway billboard, figuring out her place in the world as a Guatemalan-Colombian-American writer, and more. The conversation has been edited and condensed.

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