Lina María Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas

Lina María Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas is the author of Don’t Come Back (Mad River Books, 2017), Drown/Sever/Sing (Anomalous Press, 2015), and is the coeditor of the forthcoming anthology The Great American Essay . Her fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and translation work has been featured in various journals including Bellingham Review , Chicago Review , Fourth Genre , Brevity , Poets & Writers , and the Sunday Rumpus , among others. She’s been the recipient of the Best of the Net award and Iron Horse Review’s Discovered Voices Award. She has been nominated for two Pushcart Prizes and is a Rona Jaffe fellow. She holds an MFA in both creative nonfiction and literary translation from the University of Iowa and works as an assistant professor for the University of Chicago.