Sonya Larson’s short fiction and essays have appeared in Best American Short Stories, American Short Fiction, American Literary Review, Poets & Writers, Writer’s Chronicle, Amazon Originals, West Branch, Salamander, Memorious, The Harvard Advocate, Pangyrus, and more. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Vermont Studio Center, Ragdale, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the St. Botolph Club Foundation, and more. She is Director of GrubStreet‘s Muse and the Marketplace writing conference, and is an organizer for the Boston Writers of Color Group. She received her MFA in fiction from the Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, and is currently working on a novel.