Kali Fajardo-Anstine

Kali Fajardo-Anstine is an American novelist and short story writer from Denver, Colorado, best known for the story collection Sabrina & Corina, which won the 2020 American Book Award, and for her novel Woman of Light, a historical story set in 1930s Denver. She was a 2019 finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction, and Woman of Light won the 2023 WILLA Literary Award in Historical Fiction. She has held the Endowed Chair in Creative Writing at Texas State University and was a 2023 Guggenheim Fellow.