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Caballero’s first novel, /Cuts, received Texas Review Press’ Clay Reynolds Novella Prize and will be published in November 2026.

/Cuts presents itself with a format similar to Julio Cortázar’s Rayuela. Its brief chapters can be read as independent fragments, as a single narrative thread, or as modular combinations of each other.

Set in Madrid and told by a Colombian protagonist, /Cuts narrates the secret struggle of Lucía Nieto against alcoholism. This private battle is not one of privation—Lucía’s solitude allows her to retreat deep within her rich inner world, inhabited by literary figures who sustain her on her solitary path toward health.

In confronting her addiction, Lucía must also confront her past, acknowledging the ways alcoholism has afflicted her family.

Narrative perspective twists to question post-colonial identity and to penetrate Lucía’s private narrative, confounding the voice of the protagonist with that of the author, merging creation with creator.

Its pages also gift such agency to the reader, inviting them to read what they love and to love what they read.

In /Cuts, writing and reading become acts of resistance, challenging societal norms and conventional literary craft. Through an intricate collaboration, writer and reader unite on a mission to save Lucía’s life.