Ingrid Rojas Contreras is the recipient of the 2014 Mary Tanenbaum Award for Nonfiction. She is a fellow at the San Francisco Writer’s Grotto. Her writing has been anthologized in Guernica Annual (forthcoming), Wise Latinas (Nebraska University Press), and American Odysseys: Writings by New Americans (Dalkey Archive Press). She blogs about books and all things literary for KQED, San Francisco’s NPR affiliate. She am a fiction and non-fiction writer. As a Colombian immigrant, she writes about identity, displacement, and memory. Ingrid is am working on a CNF family memoir centering around my grandfather who was a folk healer in Colombia who it said could move clouds.
Links
- Book Review: The Beautiful Unseen by Kyle Boelte (KQED)
- How to Celebrate National Poetry Month (KQED)
- The Best Book Trailers of 2014 (KQED)
- The End of the World: Musings from Notable Writers (KQED)
- Sexy Books, Unsexy Books: A Valentine's Day Slideshow (KQED)
- The Year in Meh: When 2013 Was Just Ok (KQED)
- Book Review: Rebecca Solnit Explores the Fairy Tale Nature of Real Life in ‘The Faraway Nearby' (KQED)
- Personal Essay: The Groan of Ice (Wise Latinas, Nebraska University Press; password: 'Nomadic')
- Ghost House (Guernica)