Cristina Henriquez is the author of the acclaimed novels The Book of Unknown Americans and The World in Half, as well as the story collection Come Together, Fall Apart, which was a New York Times Editors' Choice selection. She earned her undergraduate degree from Northwestern University and is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Her stories have appeared in the New Yorker, Atlantic, American Scholar, Glimmer Train, Ploughshares, TriQuarterly, AGNI, and the Virginia Quarterly Review, where she was named one of Fiction's New Luminaries. She is also the recipient of an Alfredo Cisneros Del Moral Foundation Award.
