Aracelis González Asendorf was born in Cuba. She is the author of the short story collection, Dressing the Saints, published January, 2024 by Black Lawrence Press as a selection of their Immigrant Writing Series. Her work has appeared in TriQuarterly, Brevity Magazine, Off Assignment, Kweli Journal, Aster(ix) Journal, The Adirondack Review, Puerto del Sol, The South Atlantic Review, and elsewhere. Her stories have been anthologized in 100% Pure Florida Fiction (University of Florida Press, 2000), All About Skin: Short Fiction by Women of Color (University of Wisconsin Press, 2014), and Home in Florida: Latinx Writers and the Literature of Uprootedness (University of Florida Press, 2021).She is the recipient of the 2016 South Atlantic Modern Language Association Graduate Creative Writing Award for Prose, and a 2019 Sterling Watson Fellow. She lives in Tampa, Florida, and will be appearing as part of the Florida Book Awards fiction and poetry winners panel at this year’s Word of South.
Aracelis González Asendorf
