Yalitza Ferreras holds a BA from Mills College and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Michigan, where she won the Thesis Prize. A Dominican American writer, she is a 2020 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award recipient and former Steinbeck Fellow at San Jose State University (2014-2015). Her story "The Letician Age" was selected for Best American Short Stories 2016 and appears on the AP English Literature exam. Her fiction has appeared in Kenyon Review, Bellevue Literary Review (Fiction Prize winner), The Southern Review, Colorado Review, and Aster(ix) Journal. Her work is anthologized in Wise Latinas: Writers on Higher Education and Daring to Write: Contemporary Narratives by Dominican Women. She has received fellowships from Yaddo, Djerassi, Ucross, Voices of Our Nation, and the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund for Women. Born in New York and raised between the US and Dominican Republic, she writes about immigrant experiences, working-class communities, and women of color, bringing authentic voices to contemporary American literature.