Marcela Fuentes, Ph.D.

Education

• Ph.D Georgia State University, 2016
• M.F.A. Iowa Writers' Workshop, 2009
• B.A. The University of Texas at Austin, 1998

Areas of Focus

• Fiction Writing
• Creative Nonfiction
• Latine Literature
• Indigenous Literature

Selected Publications

• Fuentes, Marcela. Malas. New York, New York, Viking, 2024.
  
  Good Morning America Book Club Pick, June 2024
  
  Malas, review in The New York Times.
  
  Malas, review in Texas Monthly
  
  Honors & Awards
  2025 Short-listed, The Mark Twain American Voice Prize in Literature
  2025 Finalist, Writers' League of Texas Literary Prize
  2025 WILLA Award for Contemporary Fiction/Willa Cather Literary Award
  2025 Texas Institute of Letters First Novel Prize
  2024 REFORMA Book Award
  2024 Outstanding Western Novel Award
  2024 Southwest Book of the Year
  2024 Lariat List, Texas Library Association
  2024 Finalist, Reading the West Debut Novel of the Year
  2024 Longlisted, First Novel Prize, The Center for Fiction