Cristina is a Colombian-American fiction writer from San Francisco, CA. Her work has appeared in PEN America Best Debut Short Stories 2018, The Michigan Quarterly Review, The Adroit Journal, Epoch Literary Magazine, Action / Spectacle, War, Literature & the Arts, and Vestal Review. She is the recipient of a PEN/Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers, a Fulbright Fellowship, a Tin House Scholarship, the Adroit Journal Veasna So Scholarship, and was a Steinbeck Fellowship Finalist. Her operas have been performed nationally and to critical acclaim. She is at work on a collection of stories, an opera, and a novel, and teaches literature and creative writing at a college prep school.
As an artist, her interests include editing (fiction and screenplays), literary translation, and other forms of creative collaborations.
Cristina is represented by Sophia Bark at WME. You can reach her at sbark@wmeagency.com
Photography by Mariya Stangl