Yalitza Ferreras is a recent Steinbeck Fellow in Creative Writing at San Jose State University. Her writing appears in Best American Short Stories 2016, Colorado Review, and the anthologies Wise Latinas: Writers on Higher Education and Daring to Write: Contemporary Narratives by Dominican Women. She received an MFA in creative writing from the University of Michigan and is the recipient of fellowships and awards from Yaddo, Djerassi Resident Artists, Barbara Deming Memorial Fund for Women, San Francisco Writers’ Grotto, and Voices of Our Nation.
July/Aug 2020
An Excerpt from “You Must Be This Tall”
Read a micro-conversation with the author here. My father held a fishing pole in one hand and in the other, a cooler for the porgies, fluke, and bluefish we would […]
Temporary and Ongoing
July/Aug 2020
You Must Be This Tall
My father held a fishing pole in one hand and in the other, a cooler for the porgies, fluke, and bluefish we would catch off the Coney Island piers. We […]
Yalitza Ferreras
Yalitza Ferreras is a recent Steinbeck Fellow in Creative Writing at San Jose State University. Her writing appears in Best American Short Stories 2016, Colorado Review, and the anthologies Wise […]