Cristina Henriquez

Cristina Henríquez is the author of the acclaimed novels The Book of Unknown Americans and The World in Half , as well as the story collection Come Together, Fall Apart , which was a New York Times Editors' Choice selection. She earned her undergraduate degree from Northwestern University and is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Her stories have appeared in the New Yorker , Atlantic , American Scholar , Glimmer Train , Ploughshares , TriQuarterly , AGNI , and the Virginia Quarterly...See more

Cristina Henríquez is the author of the acclaimed novels The Book of Unknown Americans and The World in Half , as well as the story collection Come Together, Fall Apart , which was a New York Times Editors' Choice selection. She earned her undergraduate degree from Northwestern University and is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Her stories have appeared in the New Yorker , Atlantic , American Scholar , Glimmer Train , Ploughshares , TriQuarterly , AGNI , and the Virginia Quarterly Review , where she was named one of "Fiction's New Luminaries." She is also the recipient of an Alfredo Cisneros Del Moral Foundation Award. See less