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| Cornejo Villavicencio was born in 1989 in Ecuador.<ref name="dickersonNYT24mar2020">{{Cite news|last=Dickerson|first=Caitlin|date=March 24, 2020|title=This Is the Face of an Undocumented Immigrant. |
Cornejo Villavicencio was born in 1989 in Ecuador.<ref name="dickersonNYT24mar2020">{{Cite news|last=Dickerson|first=Caitlin|date=March 24, 2020|title=This Is the Face of an Undocumented Immigrant. Don't Look Away.|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/24/books/review/the-undocumented-americans-karla-cornejo-villavicencio.html|access-date=September 9, 2020|issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref name=":3">{{Cite web|last=Lozada|first=Lucas Iberico|date=June 10, 2020|title=Karla Cornejo Villavicencio: DREAMer memoirs have their purpose. But that's not what I set out to write.|url=https://www.guernicamag.com/karla-cornejo-villavicencio-dreamer-memoirs-have-their-purpose-but-thats-not-what-i-set-out-to-write/|access-date=September 9, 2020|website=Guernica|language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=":8">{{Cite news|last=León|first=Concepción de|date=October 21, 2020|title='I Came From Nothing': An Undocumented Writer Defies the Odds|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/21/books/karla-cornejo-villavicencio-undocumented-americans.html|access-date=October 26, 2020|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> When she was 18 months old, her parents left her behind when they immigrated to the US.<ref name="dickersonNYT24mar2020" /> When she was four or five, her parents brought her to the United States.<ref name="dickersonNYT24mar2020" /><ref name=":0">{{Cite web|last=Muñoz|first=Daisy|date=June 1, 2020|title=Book Review: The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio|url=https://www.latinxproject.nyu.edu/intervenxions/book-review-emthe-undocumented-americansem-by-karla-cornejo-villavicencio|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=September 9, 2020|website=The Latinx Project at NYU|language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=":5" /> She has a brother.<ref name=":3" /> The family lived in the New York borough of ].<ref name=":3" /> | ||
| She graduated from ] in 2011 and believes she is one of the first undocumented immigrants to do so.<ref name="dickersonNYT24mar2020" /><ref name="KIRKUS19may2020">{{Cite web |title=THE UNDOCUMENTED AMERICANS |website=Kirkus Reviews |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/karla-cornejo-villavicencio/the-undocumented-americans/ |access-date=September 9, 2020 |language=en}}</ref><ref name="lucaCRIMSON27may2020" /> As of September 2020 she is a PhD candidate in the ] program at ].<ref name="dickersonNYT24mar2020" /><ref name=":8" /><ref name="KIRKUS19may2020" /> She was an ] fellow.<ref>{{Cite web|title=A new book explores the undocumented experience in all its complexity|url=https://www.echealthsummit.com/new-book-explores-the-undocumented-experience/|access-date=September 9, 2020|website=Emerson Collective|language=en}}</ref> | She graduated from ] in 2011 and believes she is one of the first undocumented immigrants to do so.<ref name="dickersonNYT24mar2020" /><ref name="KIRKUS19may2020">{{Cite web |title=THE UNDOCUMENTED AMERICANS |website=Kirkus Reviews |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/karla-cornejo-villavicencio/the-undocumented-americans/ |access-date=September 9, 2020 |language=en}}</ref><ref name="lucaCRIMSON27may2020" /> As of September 2020 she is a PhD candidate in the ] program at ].<ref name="dickersonNYT24mar2020" /><ref name=":8" /><ref name="KIRKUS19may2020" /> She was an ] fellow.<ref>{{Cite web|title=A new book explores the undocumented experience in all its complexity|url=https://www.echealthsummit.com/new-book-explores-the-undocumented-experience/|access-date=September 9, 2020|website=Emerson Collective|language=en}}</ref> | ||
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| ===''The Undocumented Americans''=== | ===''The Undocumented Americans''=== | ||
| In 2010, when Cornejo Villavicencio was a senior in college and before ] (DACA) program was established, she wrote an essay, “I'm an Illegal Immigrant at Harvard”, which was published anonymously by the ''Daily'' ''Beast''.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title=The Undocumented Americans : Code Switch|url=https://www.npr.org/2020/06/23/882551486/the-undocumented-americans|access-date=September 9, 2020|website=NPR.org|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Anonymous|date=November 27, 2010|title=DREAM Act: |
In 2010, when Cornejo Villavicencio was a senior in college and before ] (DACA) program was established, she wrote an essay, “I'm an Illegal Immigrant at Harvard”, which was published anonymously by the ''Daily'' ''Beast''.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title=The Undocumented Americans : Code Switch|url=https://www.npr.org/2020/06/23/882551486/the-undocumented-americans|access-date=September 9, 2020|website=NPR.org|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Anonymous|date=November 27, 2010|title=DREAM Act: I'm an Illegal Immigrant at Harvard|language=en|work=The Daily Beast|url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2010/11/27/dream-act-im-an-illegal-immigrant-at-harvard|access-date=September 9, 2020}}</ref> Literary agents reached out to ask if she'd be interested in writing a memoir, which she says made her angry, as she was at the time 21.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=April 10, 2020|title=This American Life|url=https://shortcut.thisamericanlife.org/#/clipping/700/522?_k=e86xj3|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=September 9, 2020|website=shortcut.thisamericanlife.org}}</ref> She felt most were interested in having her write "a rueful tale about a sickly Victorian orphan with tuberculosis who didn't have a social security number".<ref name=":2" /> | ||
| Cornejo Villavicencio's first book, ''The Undocumented Americans'', is part memoir, part essays about undocumented ]ers, whom she calls "People who don't inspire hashtags or t-shirts".<ref name="dickersonNYT24mar2020" /><ref name=":1" /> She started writing it the morning after the 2016 presidential election and says she "thought the moment called for a radical experiment in genre".<ref name=":3" /><ref>{{Cite web|last=Peer|first=Jeff|date=August 10, 2020|title=Necessary Documents, Undocumented Americans|url=https://www.publicbooks.org/necessary-documents-undocumented-americans/|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=September 9, 2020|website=Public Books|language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=":7">{{Cite web|last=González-Ramírez|first=Andrea|date=March 23, 2020|title= |
Cornejo Villavicencio's first book, ''The Undocumented Americans'', is part memoir, part essays about undocumented ]ers, whom she calls "People who don't inspire hashtags or t-shirts".<ref name="dickersonNYT24mar2020" /><ref name=":1" /> She started writing it the morning after the 2016 presidential election and says she "thought the moment called for a radical experiment in genre".<ref name=":3" /><ref>{{Cite web|last=Peer|first=Jeff|date=August 10, 2020|title=Necessary Documents, Undocumented Americans|url=https://www.publicbooks.org/necessary-documents-undocumented-americans/|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=September 9, 2020|website=Public Books|language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=":7">{{Cite web|last=González-Ramírez|first=Andrea|date=March 23, 2020|title='The Undocumented Americans' Is the Immigration Punk Manifesto We Need Today|url=https://gen.medium.com/the-undocumented-americans-is-the-immigration-punk-manifesto-we-need-today-f09e01636952|access-date=September 9, 2020|website=Medium|language=en}}</ref> She has said she wasn't interested in writing about DACA recipients, as the stories of DACA recipients are already well-documented and "occupy outsize attention in our politics".<ref name=":1" /> Cornejo Villavicencio visited with workers in Cleveland, ], ], New York, and Miami, "gaining access to vigilantly guarded communities whose stories are largely absent from modern journalism and literature".<ref name="dickersonNYT24mar2020" /><ref name=":1" /> She in general avoided detailing her subjects' reasons for emigrating because she believes people shouldn't have to provide a reason why they "deserve" to emigrate.<ref name=":7" /> | ||
| Cornejo Villavicencio built trust slowly within the communities of undocumented immigrants, helped by her own undocumented status and her fluency in Spanish, taking notes by hand instead of relying on a tape recorder.<ref name="KIRKUS19may2020" /> After the book was completed she destroyed her notes.<ref name="KIRKUS19may2020" /> She changed the names and any personal details that could be used to identify the subjects.<ref name="KIRKUS19may2020" /> The book is dedicated to ], an undocumented immigrant who was killed by border agents shortly after crossing the Mexican border.<ref name=":10" /> | Cornejo Villavicencio built trust slowly within the communities of undocumented immigrants, helped by her own undocumented status and her fluency in Spanish, taking notes by hand instead of relying on a tape recorder.<ref name="KIRKUS19may2020" /> After the book was completed she destroyed her notes.<ref name="KIRKUS19may2020" /> She changed the names and any personal details that could be used to identify the subjects.<ref name="KIRKUS19may2020" /> The book is dedicated to ], an undocumented immigrant who was killed by border agents shortly after crossing the Mexican border.<ref name=":10" /> | ||
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| ] says the book "profiles people who've paid a steep price for the so-called ]".<ref name=":1" /> Cornejo Villavicencio had originally written the book as her dissertation at Yale; when she presented it, it was failed, she believes because she "criticized the legacy of migration studies, where I found a fixation on brown skin, on calloused hands".<ref name=":3" /> She places the book in the ] literary genre '']''.<ref name=":3" /> | ] says the book "profiles people who've paid a steep price for the so-called ]".<ref name=":1" /> Cornejo Villavicencio had originally written the book as her dissertation at Yale; when she presented it, it was failed, she believes because she "criticized the legacy of migration studies, where I found a fixation on brown skin, on calloused hands".<ref name=":3" /> She places the book in the ] literary genre '']''.<ref name=":3" /> | ||
| In 2020 during the coronavirus pandemic, she wrote a piece for ''The New York Times'' about the humanitarian crisis on the US–Mexico border.<ref name=":6" /><ref>{{Cite news| |
In 2020 during the coronavirus pandemic, she wrote a piece for ''The New York Times'' about the humanitarian crisis on the US–Mexico border.<ref name=":6" /><ref>{{Cite news|last1=Lee|first1=Christopher|last2=Villavicencio|first2=Karla Cornejo|date=April 12, 2020|title=Opinion {{!}} The Impending Mass Grave Across the Border From Texas|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/12/opinion/matamoros-migrants-coronavirus.html|access-date=September 9, 2020|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> | ||
| ==== Reception ==== | ==== Reception ==== | ||
| '']'' called ''The Undocumented Americans'' a "creative non-fiction masterpiece".<ref>{{Cite web|date=May 28, 2020|title=Why Karla Cornejo |
'']'' called ''The Undocumented Americans'' a "creative non-fiction masterpiece".<ref>{{Cite web|date=May 28, 2020|title=Why Karla Cornejo Villavicencio's 'The Undocumented Americans' Is a Hardcore Masterpiece|url=https://remezcla.com/features/culture/karla-cornejo-villavicencio-the-undocumented-americans-review-and-interview/|access-date=September 9, 2020|website=Remezcla|language=en-US}}</ref> '']'' called her writing style "very precise and also casual, almost nonchalant".<ref name=":4" /> ] said "Her prose—caustic, quick, and simmering with righteous anger—leads seamlessly from heartbreak to gut-splitting laughter".<ref name=":3" /> '']'' said "The book is beautiful for Cornejo Villavicencio's sensitivity to character, and for her ability to structure a narrative almost entirely through the people she meets."<ref name="phamBOOKFORUM2020">{{Cite web |title=Dream City |url=https://www.bookforum.com/print/2702/dream-city-24054 |access-date=September 9, 2020 |website=www.bookforum.com |language=en-US}}</ref> ], writing for ''The New York Times'', called the book "captivating and evocative".<ref name="dickersonNYT24mar2020" /> '']'' called it "profoundly intimate" and an "incandescent account".<ref name="PWmay2020">{{Cite web |title=The Undocumented Americans |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-399-59269-0 |access-date=September 9, 2020 |website=www.publishersweekly.com}}</ref> '']'' points out that because any identifiable details have been changed, the reader has to trust that Cornejo Villavicencio hasn't embellished, but notes her "candor about herself removes worries about the credibility of her stories".<ref name="KIRKUS19may2020" /> '']'' said that her point is that "Undocumented people need not be 'heroes' for their stories to be important, valid, and, above all, told."<ref name="lucaCRIMSON27may2020">{{Cite web |title='The Undocumented Americans' Refuses Stereotypes and Claims its Own Space |work=The Harvard Crimson |url=https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2020/5/27/the-undocumented-americans-book-review/ |access-date=September 9, 2020}}</ref> Daisy Muñoz, writing for the LatinX Project at ], said "Cornejo’s storytelling flawlessly goes from her experiences to those of her interviewees, all the while weaving everyone’s histories into a compassionate and nuanced narrative of what it means to live an undocumented life".<ref name=":0" /> ElectricLiterature said it "doesn't pander to white expectations".<ref name=":5">{{Cite web|last=Arthurs|first=Alexia|date=April 8, 2020|title=A Book About Undocumented Americans That Doesn't Pander to White Expectations|url=https://electricliterature.com/a-book-about-undocumented-americans-that-doesnt-pander-to-white-expectations/|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=September 9, 2020|website=Electric Literature|language=en-US}}</ref> ] called it "heavy and gorgeous and astoundingly humane".<ref name=":6">{{Cite web|last=Mirelles Christoff|first=Alicia|date=August 27, 2020|title=Review: Dispatches from the Land of White Noise—The Undocumented Americans|url=https://www.thecommononline.org/review-dispatches-from-the-land-of-white-noise-the-undocumented-americans/|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=September 9, 2020|website=The Common|language=en-US}}</ref> '']'' gave it a starred review.<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=June 2, 2020|title=The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio |url=http://smithsonianapa.org/bookdragon/the-undocumented-americans-by-karla-cornejo-villavicencio-in-booklist/|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=September 9, 2020|website=|language=en-US}}</ref> It has been shortlisted for the 2020 National Book Award for Nonfiction; according to the National Book Foundation she is the first undocumented writer to be a finalist.<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=October 7, 2020|title=National Book Awards 2020 shortlists announced|url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2020/10/07/157689/national-book-awards-2020-shortlists-announced/|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=October 7, 2020|website=Books+Publishing|language=en-AU}}</ref><ref name=":9">{{Cite web|date=October 9, 2020|title=Karla Cornejo Villavicencio On Why She Avoids Anger (And Why White Men Should, Too)|url=https://www.interviewmagazine.com/culture/karla-cornejo-villavicencio-on-why-she-avoids-anger-and-why-white-men-should-too|access-date=October 26, 2020|website=Interview Magazine|language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=":8" /> | ||
| As of October 2020, she is no longer an undocumented resident, having gained a green card and establishing permanent residence in New Haven.<ref name=":10">{{Cite web|date=2020-11-18|title=Meet Karla Cornejo Villavicencio: 1st Undocumented National Book Awards Finalist|url=https://www.colorlines.com/articles/meet-karla-cornejo-villavicencio-1st-undocumented-national-book-awards-finalist|access-date=2020-11-22|website=www.colorlines.com|language=en}}</ref> | As of October 2020, she is no longer an undocumented resident, having gained a green card and establishing permanent residence in New Haven.<ref name=":10">{{Cite web|date=2020-11-18|title=Meet Karla Cornejo Villavicencio: 1st Undocumented National Book Awards Finalist|url=https://www.colorlines.com/articles/meet-karla-cornejo-villavicencio-1st-undocumented-national-book-awards-finalist|access-date=2020-11-22|website=www.colorlines.com|language=en}}</ref> | ||
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Ecuadorian-American writer In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Cornejo and the second or maternal family name is Villavicencio.
Karla Cornejo Villavicencio (born 1989) is an Ecuadorian-American writer and the author of The Undocumented Americans (2020). She has written about her experiences as an undocumented immigrant from Ecuador to the United States. In October 2020 it was shortlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction.
Early life and education
Cornejo Villavicencio was born in 1989 in Ecuador. When she was 18 months old, her parents left her behind when they immigrated to the US. When she was four or five, her parents brought her to the United States. She has a brother. The family lived in the New York borough of Queens.
She graduated from Harvard in 2011 and believes she is one of the first undocumented immigrants to do so. As of September 2020 she is a PhD candidate in the American studies program at Yale. She was an Emerson Collective fellow.
Career
Cornejo Villavicencio began writing professionally as a teenager. She reviewed jazz albums for a New York monthly magazine. She has written for The Atlantic, Elle, Glamour, n+1, The New Republic, The New York Times, and Vogue.
The Undocumented Americans
In 2010, when Cornejo Villavicencio was a senior in college and before Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program was established, she wrote an essay, “I'm an Illegal Immigrant at Harvard”, which was published anonymously by the Daily Beast. Literary agents reached out to ask if she'd be interested in writing a memoir, which she says made her angry, as she was at the time 21. She felt most were interested in having her write "a rueful tale about a sickly Victorian orphan with tuberculosis who didn't have a social security number".
Cornejo Villavicencio's first book, The Undocumented Americans, is part memoir, part essays about undocumented day laborers, whom she calls "People who don't inspire hashtags or t-shirts". She started writing it the morning after the 2016 presidential election and says she "thought the moment called for a radical experiment in genre". She has said she wasn't interested in writing about DACA recipients, as the stories of DACA recipients are already well-documented and "occupy outsize attention in our politics". Cornejo Villavicencio visited with workers in Cleveland, Flint, New Haven, New York, and Miami, "gaining access to vigilantly guarded communities whose stories are largely absent from modern journalism and literature". She in general avoided detailing her subjects' reasons for emigrating because she believes people shouldn't have to provide a reason why they "deserve" to emigrate.
Cornejo Villavicencio built trust slowly within the communities of undocumented immigrants, helped by her own undocumented status and her fluency in Spanish, taking notes by hand instead of relying on a tape recorder. After the book was completed she destroyed her notes. She changed the names and any personal details that could be used to identify the subjects. The book is dedicated to Claudia Gomez Gonzalez, an undocumented immigrant who was killed by border agents shortly after crossing the Mexican border.
Shereen Marisol Meraji says the book "profiles people who've paid a steep price for the so-called American Dream". Cornejo Villavicencio had originally written the book as her dissertation at Yale; when she presented it, it was failed, she believes because she "criticized the legacy of migration studies, where I found a fixation on brown skin, on calloused hands". She places the book in the Latin American literary genre testimonio.
In 2020 during the coronavirus pandemic, she wrote a piece for The New York Times about the humanitarian crisis on the US–Mexico border.
Reception
Remezcla called The Undocumented Americans a "creative non-fiction masterpiece". The Adroit Journal called her writing style "very precise and also casual, almost nonchalant". Guernica said "Her prose—caustic, quick, and simmering with righteous anger—leads seamlessly from heartbreak to gut-splitting laughter". Bookforum said "The book is beautiful for Cornejo Villavicencio's sensitivity to character, and for her ability to structure a narrative almost entirely through the people she meets." Caitlin Dickerson, writing for The New York Times, called the book "captivating and evocative". Publishers Weekly called it "profoundly intimate" and an "incandescent account". Kirkus Reviews points out that because any identifiable details have been changed, the reader has to trust that Cornejo Villavicencio hasn't embellished, but notes her "candor about herself removes worries about the credibility of her stories". The Harvard Crimson said that her point is that "Undocumented people need not be 'heroes' for their stories to be important, valid, and, above all, told." Daisy Muñoz, writing for the LatinX Project at New York University, said "Cornejo’s storytelling flawlessly goes from her experiences to those of her interviewees, all the while weaving everyone’s histories into a compassionate and nuanced narrative of what it means to live an undocumented life". ElectricLiterature said it "doesn't pander to white expectations". The Common called it "heavy and gorgeous and astoundingly humane". Smithsonian gave it a starred review. It has been shortlisted for the 2020 National Book Award for Nonfiction; according to the National Book Foundation she is the first undocumented writer to be a finalist.
As of October 2020, she is no longer an undocumented resident, having gained a green card and establishing permanent residence in New Haven.
Personal life
Cornejo Villavicencio lives with her partner, Talya Zemach-Bersin, in New Haven.
References
- ^ Dickerson, Caitlin (March 24, 2020). "This Is the Face of an Undocumented Immigrant. Don't Look Away". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved September 9, 2020.
- ^ Lozada, Lucas Iberico (June 10, 2020). "Karla Cornejo Villavicencio: DREAMer memoirs have their purpose. But that's not what I set out to write". Guernica. Retrieved September 9, 2020.
- ^ León, Concepción de (October 21, 2020). "'I Came From Nothing': An Undocumented Writer Defies the Odds". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved October 26, 2020.
- ^ Muñoz, Daisy (June 1, 2020). "Book Review: The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio". The Latinx Project at NYU. Retrieved September 9, 2020.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Arthurs, Alexia (April 8, 2020). "A Book About Undocumented Americans That Doesn't Pander to White Expectations". Electric Literature. Retrieved September 9, 2020.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "THE UNDOCUMENTED AMERICANS". Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved September 9, 2020.
- ^ "'The Undocumented Americans' Refuses Stereotypes and Claims its Own Space". The Harvard Crimson. Retrieved September 9, 2020.
- "A new book explores the undocumented experience in all its complexity". Emerson Collective. Retrieved September 9, 2020.
- ^ Dickey, Sierra (March 24, 2020). ""I asked them to send me flowers": A Conversation with Karla Cornejo Villavicencio". The Adroit Journal. Retrieved September 9, 2020.
- "The Undocumented Americans". C-SPAN.org. Retrieved September 9, 2020.
- ^ "The Undocumented Americans : Code Switch". NPR.org. Retrieved September 9, 2020.
- Anonymous (November 27, 2010). "DREAM Act: I'm an Illegal Immigrant at Harvard". The Daily Beast. Retrieved September 9, 2020.
- ^ "This American Life". shortcut.thisamericanlife.org. April 10, 2020. Retrieved September 9, 2020.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - Peer, Jeff (August 10, 2020). "Necessary Documents, Undocumented Americans". Public Books. Retrieved September 9, 2020.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ González-Ramírez, Andrea (March 23, 2020). "'The Undocumented Americans' Is the Immigration Punk Manifesto We Need Today". Medium. Retrieved September 9, 2020.
- ^ "Meet Karla Cornejo Villavicencio: 1st Undocumented National Book Awards Finalist". www.colorlines.com. 2020-11-18. Retrieved 2020-11-22.
- ^ Mirelles Christoff, Alicia (August 27, 2020). "Review: Dispatches from the Land of White Noise—The Undocumented Americans". The Common. Retrieved September 9, 2020.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - Lee, Christopher; Villavicencio, Karla Cornejo (April 12, 2020). "Opinion | The Impending Mass Grave Across the Border From Texas". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved September 9, 2020.
- "Why Karla Cornejo Villavicencio's 'The Undocumented Americans' Is a Hardcore Masterpiece". Remezcla. May 28, 2020. Retrieved September 9, 2020.
- "Dream City". www.bookforum.com. Retrieved September 9, 2020.
- "The Undocumented Americans". www.publishersweekly.com. Retrieved September 9, 2020.
- "The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio [in Booklist]". June 2, 2020. Retrieved September 9, 2020.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - "National Book Awards 2020 shortlists announced". Books+Publishing. October 7, 2020. Retrieved October 7, 2020.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - "Karla Cornejo Villavicencio On Why She Avoids Anger (And Why White Men Should, Too)". Interview Magazine. October 9, 2020. Retrieved October 26, 2020.
- Concepción de León (October 21, 2020). "I Came From Nothing: An Undocumented Writer Defies the Odds". The New York Times. Retrieved January 18, 2021.