María Alejandra Barrios is a writer and educator from Barranquilla, Colombia. She has an MA in Creative Writing from The University of Manchester and currently lives in Brooklyn. Her novel THE WAVES TAKE YOU HOME is forthcoming from Lake Union Publishing, Spring 2024. View the announcement here. Pre-order here.

Her Stories 

Have been published in places such as Reservoir Journal, Cosmonauts Avenue, Jellyfish Review, Lost Balloon, Shenandoah Literary, Vol.1 Brooklyn, El Malpensante, Moon City, Fractured Lit, and SmokeLong Quarterly. She was the 2020 SmokeLong Flash Fiction Fellow and her work has been supported by organizations such as Vermont Studio Center, Caldera Arts Center, and the New Orleans Writing Residency. She is a Kweli Art of the Short Story Writing Workshop alum and Kweli fellow.

María Alejandra Barrios is represented by Amanda Orozco at Transatlantic Agency.

Teaching

María teaches classes in places such as Gotham Writers, Paragraph NY, and Catapult.

María also edits SmokeLong en Español. Read the latest issue here!