Kristina Ten
Rochester, NY
Fiction
Kristina Ten’s stories appear in McSweeney’s, Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, We’re Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction, Lightspeed, Nightmare, Uncanny, Gulf Coast, Passages North, and elsewhere. Along with winning the inaugural McSweeney's Stephen Dixon Award for Short Fiction, she has been a finalist for the Locus Award and the WSFA Small Press Award, and longlisted for Best Horror of the Year.
Ten is a graduate of Clarion West Writers Workshop and the MFA program in fiction at the University of Colorado Boulder, where she also taught undergraduate creative writing. Born in Moscow, she has lived most of her life in the U.S., in the company of mischievous dogs, melodramatic plants, weaving looms of various sizes, and bookshelves full of fairy tales.
At Ragdale, Ten will be revising her first novel. Like much of her writing, this book centers on (im)migration, hyphenated identity, unruly women, gendered labor, the spaces between obedience and dissent, and the magical and monstrous in all of us.