Pascha Sotolongo is a Latina writer who teaches college English and holds a PhD in Latinx literature and postcolonial theory.

Her short stories have been published or are forthcoming in The Southern Review, American Short Fiction, Narrative, Witness Magazine, Pleiades, The Normal School, The Chattahoochee Review, Ninth Letter, The Pinch Journal, The Florida Review, and others. Pascha’s fiction has been shortlisted for numerous awards, and her short story “The Moth” won the Ninth Letter Literary Award for Fiction in 2018. “Spanish Girls,” a narrative essay, won the Salem College Penelope Niven Award for Creative Nonfiction. Other essays have been published in Saw Palm and 1966.

Especially concerned with poverty, Pascha’s writing frequently engages with Latinx or other minoritized identities and their intersection with class and postcolonial motifs. Much of her writing is slipstream or magical realist. Currently, Pascha is working on both a novel and a memoir.

Pascha’s debut story collection is forthcoming from Norton.