Publications

swamp pink, short story “Paw” in March 2026 issue.

Vestal Review, short story “Back at the Dump” in Issue 66, June 2025.

The Adroit Journal, short story “Dianita’s Spiderweb” in Issue 49, April 2024. Winner of the Anthony Veasna So Scholarship 2024.

Michigan Quarterly Review, short story “Don’t Leave, Cecilia” in July 2023 issue.

Action, Spectacle, short story “Bones of Girls” in Winter 2022 issue.

War, Literature & the Arts, “Sister, Answer Me” short story published in the Spring 2019 issue.

Catapult, "A Conversation With PEN America Best Debut Short Stories 2018 Author Cristina Fríes"

The Rumpus, "What to Read When You're a PEN Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize Winner"

Catapult, PEN America Best Debut Short Stories, “New Years in La Calera” anthologized. August 2018.

EPOCH Literary Magazine, Volume 66 No. 3: "New Years in La Calera" 

ZYZZYVA Literary Magazine, Book Reviews and Author Q & A's

Awards

Best Microfiction Nominee, “Back at the Dump,” 2026.

Pushcart Prize Nominee, “Back at the Dump,” 2026.

Adroit Journal Anthony Veasna So Scholarship 2024, Winner of short story contest.

Steinbeck Fellowship Finalist 2024, Finalist for prestigious fellowship.

American Short Fiction, The Short(er) Fiction Prize semifinalist 2023, judged by Karen Russell.

The Adroit Journal, Anthony Veasna So Scholarship semifinalist 2023.

Tin House Summer Workshop Scholar 2019, Winner of a scholarship to attend the workshop in Portland, OR, and study with Claire Vaye Watkins.

Fulbright Open Study Award: 9-month creative writing fellowship in Argentina, 2020 

Margrit Mondavi Graduate Fellowship, awarded for her project, "Don't Leave, Cecilia, and other stories: Fiction Inspired by the stories of women in La Guajira, Colombia" (2018)

PEN America Award, PEN/Robert J Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers (2018)

Eliot Gilbert Prize, UC Davis Creative Writing Graduate Program - Best Short Story 2017-2018

UC Davis, Best Creative Thesis Award (2014)

Pamela Maus Short Story Prize, First Place winner for Fiction (2014)

Diane Lynn Bogart, First Place winner for Fiction (2014)