Engineer. Writer. Friend
Carlos is an Afro-Latino engineer, writer, filmmaker, and occasional Bruno Mars impersonator. He teaches online satire and personal essay classes at The Second City , is a features contributor at The Onion , and runs the topical satire and writing advice newsletter Shades of Greaves .
His writing has been featured in The New Yorker , NPR , and he is a frequent contributor to the humor site McSweeney’s , where he’s written several of the site’s most-read articles in 2020 , 2021 , and 2022 . His debut book, Spoilers: Essays That Might Ruin Your Favorite Hollywood Movies was successfully crowdfunded on Kickstarter in 2022 and is available for pre-order here .