Lisa Wartenberg Vélez

Lisa Wartenberg Vélez is a Colombian writer of fiction who split her childhood between Bogota and South Florida. Her work has received creative and/or financial support from Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Kenyon Workshops, Ucross Foundation, Tin House Workshop, and others. MFA: University of Houston (2023). Her work appears in Nimrod, Ghost Parachute, and elsewhere, is forthcoming in Michigan Quarterly Review, and is anthologized in Best Debut Stories 2023(Catapult) as a PEN / Dau Prize winner.

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