Cristina is a Colombian-American fiction writer from San Francisco. 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 forthcoming in 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.
Photography by Mariya Stangl