Kali Fajardo-Anstine

Kali Fajardo-Anstine is an American novelist and short story writer from Denver, Colorado. Her short stories have appeared in Electric Literature, The American Scholar, and the Boston Review. In 2020, she was the American Book Award winner for Sabrina & Corina: Stories. Her first novel, Woman of Light: A Novel (2022), is a national bestseller.[1]

Kali Fajardo-Anstine
Kali Fajardo-Anstine
Kali Fajardo-Anstine
Born (1986-11-09) November 9, 1986
Denver, Colorado, U.S.
OccupationWriter
NationalityAmerican
EducationMetropolitan State University of Denver (BA)
University of Wyoming (MFA)
Notable works"Sabrina and Corina: Stories"
Notable awardsAmerican Book Award Guggenheim Fellowship

Biography

Kali Fajardo-Anstine was born in Denver, Colorado.

Fajardo-Anstine's work often features Latina and Native American women in Colorado and the American West.[2][3] She holds a B.A. from Metropolitan State University[4] and an MFA from the University of Wyoming.[5] She has been named the Texas State University MFA program's Endowed Chair in Creative Writing for 2022-2024.[6]

Selected works
Fajardo-Anstine at the 2022 Texas Book Festival.
Novels
  • Woman of Light: A Novel (June 2022) [7]
Short story collection
  • Sabrina & Corina: Stories (October 2019) ISBN 978-0525511298[8]
Short stories
Essays

Awards and honors

References
  1. "Woman of Light by Kali Fajardo-Anstine: 9780525511328 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books". PenguinRandomhouse.com. Retrieved 20 June 2022.
  2. Bohlen, Teague (3 April 2019). "Kali Fajardo-Anstine on Sabrina & Corina, Heritage and Home". Westword. Retrieved 18 October 2019.
  3. Turner, Elliott (8 April 2019). "Sabrina & Corina". Latino Book Review. Retrieved 18 October 2019.
  4. Phare, Cory. "The border is constantly shifting". Red. Metropolitan State University of Denver. Retrieved 19 October 2019.
  5. "Making Space at the Center: Talking with Kali Fajardo-Anstine". The Rumpus. 6 May 2019. Retrieved 19 October 2019.
  6. kali-fajardo-anstine-endowed-chair-in-creative-writing (24 September 2021). "Kali Fajardo-Anstine named Endowed Chair in Creative Writing at Texas State". news.txstate.edu. Retrieved 20 June 2022.
  7. Fajardo-Anstine, Kali (2022). Woman of Light. Penguin Random House. ISBN 9780525511328.
  8. Tan, May-Lan (28 May 2019). "Debut Short Story Collections Unearth the Dark Underbellies of Relationships". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 19 October 2019.
  9. "Kali Fajardo-Anstine". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 19 October 2019.
  10. "The Before Columbus Foundation announces the Winners of the Forty-first Annual AMERICAN BOOK AWARDS". Before Columbus Foundation. Retrieved 25 October 2020.
  11. Deborah Dundas, "5 Canadians nominated for first Carol Shields Prize for Fiction for women and non-binary writers, worth $150,000 (U.S.)". Toronto Star, March 8. 2023.
  12. "Winners 2020-2029". Reading the West. Retrieved 21 August 2023.
  13. "The WILLA Literary Award – Women Writing the West". Retrieved 21 August 2023.
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