About

Portrait of author Gina María Balibrera standing outdoors in a lush, sun-dappled garden. She has wavy dark brown hair with short bangs and wears a black dress with large white floral prints. Her expression is calm and confident, with a gentle smile and warm red lipstick. Soft sunlight highlights her face and hair, and a blurred background of greenery and blooming flowers adds a natural, serene ambiance.

Gina María Balibrera is the author of the novel The Volcano Daughters. She earned an MFA in Prose from the University of Michigan's Helen Zell Writers' Program. She's been awarded grants from Aspen Words, Tin House, the Rackham Institute, and the Periplus Collective, as well as a Tyson Award, the Aura Estrada Prize, and the Under the Volcano Sandra Cisneros Fellowship. Her work has appeared in the Boston Review, Pleiades, The Wandering Song: An Anthology of the Central American Diaspora, and elsewhere. Originally from San Francisco, she lives in Ann Arbor, MI, with her family.