KATRINA CARRASCO

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Katrina Carrasco writes novels, short stories, and essays. Her second novel, ROUGH TRADE (MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux), was published in April 2024. (Buy ROUGH TRADE.) Her debut novel, THE BEST BAD THINGS (MCD/FSG), was a finalist in the Lambda Literary Awards and Washington State Book Awards, and won the Shamus Award for Best First P.I. Novel. Her essays and short stories have appeared in publications and on websites including Witness Magazine, Post Road Magazine, and Literary Hub. She has received support from the Corporation of Yaddo, Jentel Arts, I-Park Foundation, Blue Mountain Center, Willapa Bay AiR, Mineral School, Lighthouse Works, the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Storyknife Writers Retreat, Artist Trust, the Barbara G. Peters Fellowship, and the Whiting Foundation. She is a PhD candidate in Creative Writing at Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington.

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