Cristina is a Colombian-American fiction writer from San Francisco, CA. A 2026-2027 Steinbeck Fellow, 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, and the Adroit Journal Veasna So Scholarship. 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.
Cristina is represented by Sophia Bark at WME. You can reach her at sbark@wmeagency.com
Photography by Mariya Stangl