National Book Award and PEN/Bingham Prize Finalist

Kali Fajardo-Anstine is an award-winning novelist who draws from her Southern Colorado heritage and life experiences living across the American West. Her writing and lectures reflect her own heritage as a Colorado Chicana with roots in Indigenous, Latina, and Filipino cultures and her books feature the Indigenous and Latino people of Colorado.

She is a National Book Award Finalist for her debut story collection, Sabrina & Corina. Additionally, Sabrina & Corina was a finalist for the Story Prize, a finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection, and the winner of the American Book Award. Fajardo-Anstine’s first novel, Woman of Light, was hailed as “A feat of old-school storytelling” by The Guardian. It is a national bestseller and was selected as a Good Morning America Book Buzz pick in October 2022.

Kali Fajardo-Anstine earned her MFA from the University of Wyoming and has lived across the country, from Durango, Colorado, to Key West, Florida. She was the 2022-2024 Endowed Chair of Creative Writing at Texas State University and a 2023 Guggenheim Fellowship recipient. She currently lives in Denver, Colorado.

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