About me
Cristina Fríes is a Colombian-American fiction writer based in San Francisco, CA. Her work engages with the literary “unreal,” including magical realism, surrealism, fabulism, horror, and the gothic, often exploring women’s experiences and feminist themes. She has written a collection of short stories, and as a 2026-’27 Steinbeck Fellow, she is working on a novel and an opera libretto, premiering in 2029. Her work has appeared in PEN America Best Debut Short Stories 2018, The Michigan Quarterly Review, Epoch Literary Magazine, Action / Spectacle, War, Literature & the Arts, Vestal Review, swamp pink, and forthcoming in ZYZZYVA. She is the recipient of a PEN/Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers, a Fulbright Fellowship in Creative Writing, a Tin House Scholarship, the Adroit Journal Veasna So Scholarship, and a commission from West Edge Opera. She received her MA in Creative Writing from UC Davis, and her literary agent is Sophia Bark at WME Agency. www.cristinafries.com
