Brenna Gomez is the recipient of a 2017 Hedgebrook residency. Her fiction has appeared in Prairie Schooner, StoryQuarterly, and Year’s Best Weird Fiction Volume 5. She received her MFA from the University of New Mexico, where she was the Editor-in-Chief of Blue Mesa Review and the 2015 recipient of the Hispanic Writer Award for the UNM Summer Writers’ Conference in Santa Fe. She teaches fiction at the National Hispanic Cultural Center and hosts author events at Bookworks Albuquerque.