Gina María Balibrera
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Gina María Balibrera | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Nationality | Salvadoran-American |
| Education | University of Michigan (MFA) |
Gina María Balibrera is a Salvadoran-American novelist.
Balibrera was born to a Salvadoran immigrant family and grew up in San Francisco. She became interested in writing at a young age, and considered herself to be a writer by the time she was in high school.[1][non-primary source needed] In 2011, Balibrera began attending graduate school at the University of Michigan as part of the Helen Zell Writers' Program, later becoming a Zell Postgraduate Fellow in fiction.[1][2]
Her work has appeared in Boston Review,[3] Ploughshares,[4] and Michigan Quarterly Review.[5] Her short story "Álvaro" won the 2017 Aura Estrada Short Story Contest.[3][non-primary source needed] She was an editor at The Offing.[6]
In 2020, she was a Sandra Cisneros Fellow.[7][non-primary source needed]
Her 2024 novel, The Volcano Daughters, follows two Salvadoran sisters in the 1930s during and after La Matanza.[1]
