<p>Ricardo Gómez grew up in Colombia and spent twenty years as a professor of information science at the University of Washington before settling in Port Townsend, on Washington's Olympic Peninsula. His fiction draws on both geographies: several novels trace Colombian families across generations and continents; others begin with the treaties and land seizures that Port Townsend's Victorian buildings were built to obscure.</p><p>Several of his novels center on people whose work is to manage what gets written down — archivists, translators, cartographers, copyists. What the official record preserves, what it omits, and what can only be recovered through other means runs through much of his work.</p><p>He writes in English and Spanish, treating each as a distinct voice rather than a translation of the other.</p>
