Pedro Ponce

Pedro Ponce is the author of The Devil and the Dairy Princess (Indiana University Press, 2021) winner of the Don Belton Fiction Prize and a finalist for the 2021 Big Other Book Award for Fiction. He is also the author of A Map of the Underground: Six Stories and a Flash Manifesto, part of the 2024 OPEN: Journal of Arts & Letters Masters Series. His short stories and flash fiction have appeared in BOMB, Ploughshares, Copper Nickel, Witness, and other journals. His work has also been featured in anthologies such as The Best Small Fictions 2019, New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction, and Sudden Fiction Latino: Short-Short Stories from the United States and Latin America. He has been recognized with a creative writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, and with residencies at Ragdale, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. He teaches writing and literary studies at St. Lawrence University.