MQR is excited to welcome Gina Balibrera to our team as our online editor.Â
Gina Balibrera is a graduate of University of Michigan’s Helen Zell MFA program in Prose, and she is Creative Programs Manager at Literati Bookstore. Formerly a Fiction Editor for The Offing, she has received grants from the Gould Center for the Humanities and the Rackham Institute, as well as a Tyson Award, to fund and research her writing in El Salvador and France. Her writing has been featured in the Boston Review, Ploughshares, The Hairpin, and The Wandering Song, an anthology of the Central American diaspora. She is the recipient of the 2017 Aura Estrada Fiction Prize.
Check out her prize-winning short story in the Boston Review and her interview with Veronica Gonzalez Peña on MQR Online.