Patricia Engel is the author of The Veins of the Ocean (Grove, 2016), a New York Times Editors’ Choice; It’s Not Love, It’s Just Paris (Grove, 2013), winner of the International Latino Book Award; and Vida (Grove/Black Cat, 2010), a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and finalist for the PEN/Hemingway and Young Lions Fiction Awards. Her stories appear in the Best American Short Stories, the Best American Mystery Stories, and elsewhere, and have received numerous awards. A recipient of a 2014 fellowship in literature from the National Endowment for the Arts, Patricia currently lives in Miami.
July/Aug 2022
Archipelago
Someone said the story of my life was written before I was born. I am the daughter of a murdered mother. There were a father and a son who died […]
Fiction
May/June 2018
Aguacero
I remember the sky had been dark since morning, as if protesting the start of another day. Rain held off till afternoon, then started heavy: long, gray water shards dropping […]
Patricia Engel
Patricia Engel is the author of The Veins of the Ocean (Grove, 2016), a New York Times Editors’ Choice; It’s Not Love, It’s Just Paris (Grove, 2013), winner of the […]