Orlando Ortega-Medina is the author of the acclaimed short story collection Jerusalem Ablaze: Stories of Love and Other Obsessions (2017); the Los Angeles-based novels The Death of Baseball (2019) and The Savior of 6th Street (2020); the ownvoices novel The Fitful Sleep of Immigrants (2023); and the forthcoming novel Emerald Road (2025). Ortega-Medina lives in London.