Short Stories/Novellas
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| The Tourists | 2014 | Buy |
Standalone Novels
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| The Lucky Ones | 2017 | Buy |
| The Anthill | 2020 | Buy |
| Jungle House | 2023 | Buy |
Julianne Pachico grew up in Colombia and her fiction is shaped by that experience. Her debut story collection, The Tourists (2014), brought together stories set in Colombia across different time periods, tracing the lives of people caught up in the country’s long conflict. The collection received critical attention for its precise, unsettling prose and its refusal to offer easy explanations for the violence it depicted.
The Lucky Ones (2017) was her debut novel, following a group of characters across decades and continents, all of them connected to a Colombia they have left behind or been forced to flee. The Anthill (2020) moved in a more experimental direction, following a young woman in a near-future version of Colombia where a viral outbreak has changed the social order. Jungle House (2023) continued her exploration of Colombian settings and the lingering weight of the past.
Pachico writes in English and has been based in the UK as well as the US. Her work sits in the tradition of Latin American literary fiction but is also in conversation with contemporary British and American writing, and she is considered one of the more original voices in literary fiction to have emerged in the 2010s.