Kali Fajardo-Anstine

Kali Fajardo-Anstine (born November 9, 1986) is an American novelist and short story writer from Denver, Colorado. She won the 2020 American Book Award for ''Sabrina & Corina: Stories'' and was a 2019 finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction. Her first novel, ''Woman of Light: A Novel'' (2022), is a national bestseller and won the 2023 WILLA Literary Award in Historical Fiction. She is the 2022–2024 Endowed Chair in Creative Writing at Texas State University and a 2023 Guggenheim Fellow. Provided by Wikipedia