
Her writing has appeared in the The New York Times, The Atlantic, Harper’s Bazaar, ELLE, O the Oprah Magazine, The American Scholar, Boston Review, and elsewhere. Fajardo-Anstine has received fellowships from Yaddo (2017, 2021), MacDowell (2018, 2021), Hedgebrook, and Tin House. She is the 2022 - 2024 Endowed Chair in Creative Writing at Texas State University. In 2023, Fajardo-Anstine’s introduction to Willa Cather’s beloved classic, Death Comes for the Archbishop, will be published by Penguin Classics.įajardo-Anstine’s honors include awards from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Denver Mayor’s office.


Kali Fajardo-Anstine is the nationally bestselling author of the novel Woman of Light(Random House, 2022), a finalist for the Reading the West Award in Fiction, the Colorado Book Award, and longlisted for the Carol Shields Prize, the Joyce Carol Oates Prize, and the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award.įajardo-Anstine’s first book is the widely acclaimed short story collection Sabrina & Corina (Random House, 2019), a finalist for the National Book Award, the PEN/Bingham Prize, the Story Prize, the Saroyan International Prize, and winner of a American Book Award and a Reading the West Award in Fiction.
