Gina Balibrera earned an MFA in Prose from the University of Michigan’s Helen Zell Writers’ Program, where she was also a postgraduate fellow. She’s been awarded grants from the Gould Center, the Rackham Institute, a Tyson Award, the Aura Estrada Prize, the Under the Volcano Sandra Cisneros Fellowship, and is currently a member of the inaugural Periplus Fellowship cohort.
Her debut novel, The Volcano Daughters, is set in 1930s El Salvador and will be published by Oneworld in the UK and Pantheon in the US in August 2024.
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