Katerina Ivanov Prado

Katerina Ivanov Prado is a writer, poet, and former classical violinist. Her multi-genre writing has been published in Narrative, Brevity, Catapult, The Rumpus, Joyland, Passages North and others. She won the Narrative Winter Story Prize, John Weston Award for Fiction, the AWP Intro Journals Award, The Pinch Nonfiction Literary Award, and the Florida Review’s Editors Award.

She has been awarded a Mary Gibbs and Jesse H. Jones Fellowship from the Inprint Foundation, a LitUp Fellowship from Reese’s Book Club, and Scholar’s Award from Bread Loaf Writers Conference with support from the Rona Jaffe Foundation.

She obtained a dual degree B.A. in English and Political Science at Boston College. She got her MFA in Fiction at University of Arizona, where she was lucky enough to be mentored by Manuel Muñoz. These days, she is a Ph.D. student in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Houston.

She is the Online Nonfiction Editor at Gulf Coast, Prose Editor for The Adroit Journal, and a freelance sensitivity reader/editor who has worked with W.W. Norton, among others.

Currently, she teaches composition and creative writing at University of Arizona and is an Editorial Fellow at Arte Público Press. Previously, she was a Research Assistant at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School.