María Alejandra Barrios has published short fiction in Cosmonauts Avenue, the Jellyfish Review, Pigeonholes, Lost Balloon, Reservoir Journal, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Fresh Ink, El Malpensante, WaxWing Mag, SmokeLong Quarterly, Shenandoah Literary, among others. She holds an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Manchester and she was the 2020 Flash Fiction Fellow for SmokeLong Quarterly.