Yalitza Ferreras

Yalitza Ferreras is a Dominican American writer and recent Fiction Fellow at the University of Wisconsin’s Institute for Creative Writing. She has received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, a Steinbeck Fellowship at San Jose State University; fellowships and awards from Yaddo, Ucross, Djerassi, Hawthornden Foundation, Tin House, and Voices of Our Nation. Her writing has appeared in Best American Short Stories, Kenyon Review, Bellevue Literary Review, Aster(ix), The Southern Review, Colorado Review, and elsewhere. She teaches writing at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco.