From Red Room editor Jennifer Massoni:

Juvenal Acosta speaks as magically as he writes. He imbues in all he does an exquisite mystery—so captivating that you hang onto every word. Many readers did just that with each page of The Tattoo Hunter, Acosta’s 2002 neo-noir novel, originally published in Spanish. As Acosta tells Red Room, “You don’t tattoo your skin, you tattoo your imagination. You make a statement about some idea, a part of you. A tattoo is full of longing, of hope. That’s what makes it poetic.”

With his upcoming novel, Immortal, due in 2008, Acosta explores a new metaphor in a world governed by mortality. Who of us hasn’t been fascinated by the simple yet impossible premise: “What if you lived forever?” Acosta counters with, “And how would that person react in the face of mortality?” The author says he actually had a lot of fun answering his own question. See him interviewed at Litquake 2007.