Marcela Fuentes

Marcela Fuentes is a Pushcart Prize-winning fiction writer and essayist. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and was the 2016-2017 James C. McCreight Fiction Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. Her work has appeared in the Indiana Review, The Rumpus, Texas Highways Magazine, Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, and other journals. Her debut novel Malas (June 2024) was a GMA June book club pick and is longlisted for the Center for Fiction first novel prize. Her linked story collection My Heart Has More Rooms Than a Whorehouse is forthcoming from Viking Books. She lives in Fort Worth, Texas.