Are We Ever Our Own
First printing: 2,000 copies. Gabrielle Lucille Fuentes is the winner of the 2020 BOA Short Fiction Prize. Her debut novel, The Sleeping World, was published by Simon & Schuster’s Atria Books imprint in 2017 and received wide acclaim in journals such as Publishers Weekly, Ms. Magazine, The New York Times Book ReviewThe stories in Are We Ever Our OwnStories in this collection have previously appeared in Best American Short Stories 2016, Big Fiction, The Common, The New England Review, One Story, Slice Magazine, and Western Humanities ReviewStrong regional appeal in Florida, the Midwest, Chicago, Texas, New York, New Jersey, and other areas with large Cuban-American communities.
Gabrielle Lucille Fuentes is the author of Are We Ever Our Own, winner of the BOA Short Fiction Prize, and the novel The Sleeping World (Touchstone-Simon & Schuster, 2016). She has received fellowships from Hedgebrook, Willapa Bay Artists in Residency, Yaddo, the Millay Colony, Lighthouse Works, and the Blue Mountain Center. Her work has appeared in New England Review, The Common, One Story, Cosmonauts Avenue, Slice, Pank, NANO Fiction, Western Humanities Review, and elsewhere. She holds a BA from Brown University, an MFA from the University of Colorado, Boulder, and a Ph.D. from the University of Georgia. She grew up in a Cuban-Irish-American family in Wisconsin. She is an Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland where she teaches creative writing and Latinx literature.
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