Cristina Henríquez is the author of the novel The Book of Unknown Americans, forthcoming in June 2014, as well as the novel The World in Half, and the short story collection Come Together, Fall Apart, which was a New York Times Editors' Choice selection. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, her stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The 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. Henríquez lives in Illinois.
ARTICLES FEATURING CRISTINA
Here, Love Is Never Free: Priyanka Kumar on Cristina Henríquez’s “Book of Unknown Americans”
Henríquez introduces us to an assortment of migrants from Central and South America who find themselves in a rocky relationship with their new country....
Three Questions for Cristina Henríquez
Daniel A. Olivas talks with Cristina Henríquez about her disturbing and beautiful novel on immigrants living in America....
